Read the link, came back to HN to find the discussion. The article’s title is a poor summary of the article’s focus. I went back to the article - the submission here indeed uses the article’s actual title.

It actually covers a lot of ground: How the US FUBAR’d Afghanistan, United States as the only country that can impose sanctions, China does its own thing, Australian nuclear submarine deal is saber rattling with China, climate change, Abraham Lincoln as a classical liberalist, (quote below).

I made a note of this quote:

> Now it’s supposed to be a wonderful thing if you can subordinate yourself to a master for most of your working life. It’s called “getting a job.” It was considered a horrible attack on human dignity for millennia. Millennia, literally, up through the nineteenth century. It’s taken a lot of work to impose on people the idea that it’s a wonderful thing to spend your waking hours following somebody else’s orders.

Climate discussion is the least important part of this article.