Ungarn blockiert Milliardenhilfe für Ukraine

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute-journal/ungarn-blockade-eu-finanzhilfen-100.html#xtor=CS5-282

Es ist frustrierend zu sehen wie durch #vetocracy diverse Organisationen praktisch Handlungsfähig gemacht und die Gemeinschaft von einzelnen Staaten in Geiselhaft genommen werden. #EU - #Ungarn, #Nato - #Erdogan_Regime und nicht zuletzt #UN - #RusslandWladimirPutin .

Es wird in den letzten Jahren deutlicher denn je, daß diese Organisationen ihre Entscheidungsfindung ändern müssen oder neue an ihre Stelle treten müssen.

@CarlMuckenhoupt Freedom and power to me describe different elements of goal-attainment.

Power refers to the active and instrumental element. That is, power is the specific capacity to initiate change.

Freedom refers to constraints on power, a sort of negative space. Freedom is the ability to act without inhibition, but it isn't the action itself.

So ... closely related, yes. Negative spaces, yes. Synonyms: no, though clearly closely related.

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#Tootstorm #power #freedom #vetocracy #HighSpeedRail #CaliforniaHSR #JKGalbraith #CodignPower #CompensatoryPower #ConditionedPower #AnatomyOfPower #FrancisFukuyama

@pelagikat As I've delved into the areas of technology, inequality, justice, politics, and power, I've come to see a general similarity of what the essence of power is.

Some months back I realised that a set of concerns around information / data / privacy / monopoly are actually inextricably linked. An information monopoly (service, software, platform, broadcaster, publisher, etc.) is inegral to censorship, propaganda, surveillance, and manipulation.

Power inherently is manifested by some locus of control, where the key point is that an effort exerted on that locus creates a greater effect elsewhere.

This seems different from other and traditional views. See J.K. Galbriath's Anatomy of Power which defines compensatory (bought submission), condign (coercion), and conditioned (persuasive) power.

Francis Fukuyama has relatively recently coined #vetocracy as a regime in which power is held by those who can obstruct an action (think NIMBYism or obstruction politics).

As I see it, my view is the unifying model behind all of these.

There's also Charles H. Cotter on navigation and seamanship:

The Art of ship handling involves the effective use of forces under control to overcome the effect of forces not under control.

In your case, land (and specifically the ability to own and hence claim excludability of access to it) disenfranchises farmers from the ability to practice their livelihood. Land itself (and property rights and their state enforcement) become the locus of control. Shades of Proudhon.

Vetocracy: I'd been thinking recently (and thought I'd posted) on the notion of a politics of veto emerging where numerous actors of roughly equal strength exist. That is, no one power bloc can make things happen, but numerous single parties can keep things from happening.

I've just learned that Francis Fukuyama coined the term vetocracy to describe this, and for about a decade has applied this term to the US and other political scenes.

Which makes me think I may be on to something.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/A-few-steps-to-overcome-American-vetocracy-9222920.php

(A repost / typo correction from about a year ago: https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/104766273196363592)

#PoliticalTheory #veto #vetocracy #FrancisFukuyama

@cadadr More on Fukuyama and #vetocracy

https://www.vox.com/2016/10/26/13352946/francis-fukuyama-ezra-klein

@cadadr Hey, you're the economist ;-)

So: this is my hypothesis, and it's a notion I'm advancing, can't say it's proven.

Generally, there's the problem in economics of diminishing marginal value of wealth. If we're strictly looking at this as a quantitative (cardinal) effect, then that's true.

But with Mssrs Smith & Hobbes guidance, and seeing wealth as power, the advantages of being No. 1 seem more apparent.

Part of this becomes a question of how wealth manifests, and I've just today run across Francis Fukuyama's #vetocracy suggestion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vetocracy) which mirrors a notion I've been kicking around for a bit (Fukuyama seems to have beat me by about 4 years, so I'm getting closer to novel notions).

At the hyperrich level, more wealth is both a mix of doing and preventing others from acting. In both cases, having more absolute wealth seems to translate directly to power, even if that's only expressed as bluffs or projected threat.

See also Zipf and Power Law distributions and some of the associated characteristics. Winner-take-all phenomena as well.

I've not fully convinced myself, but I'm reasonably confident it's at least a strong possibility / major mechanism.