The cabbages thing is always told as a big Cincinnatus / Washington moment but in context the moment is like if Washington was trying in 1802 to explain to Adams that he shouldn't murder Jefferson and seize power and then he does that and also murders Martha Washington

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Between this and being so bad at economics he created feudalism I get the impression he was genuinely just not very good at the big picture stuff, however good he was at like technical management

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Everyone's always like "wow Diocletian had such a great system and saved the empire" and then you look at the system and it's like "let's put guys with personally loyal armies in charge of parts of the empire and make the system reliant on them voluntarily giving up power"

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Move complete. I now live in Oakland. Everyone is hot, friendly, and tattooed here. 🧑‍🍳💋🤌

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Status quo isn't an option. You can either add additional frictions (adding fees, make services worse, ban agents) or remove them (provide more services with AI help, redesign work to make access easier). Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16603

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