Cutline · Grade 8–9 · one of sixteen

P·L·I·R

The Exit Capitalist

private · decentralized · internationalist · rupture

Libertarian capitalism

Private property, no government at all, no borders — and no interest in fixing anything. Build the replacement somewhere else, make the old country irrelevant, and walk out of it.

What the four letters mean

P Ownershipprivatenot collective (C)
L Controldecentralizednot centralized (A)
I Horizoninternationalistnot national (N)
R Methodrupturenot gradual (G)

Where this has shown up

HistoricallyAnarcho-capitalism; seasteading — floating cities built outside any country’s laws; crypto and “network state” projects.

All sixteen

Columns: collective → private. Within each half, internationalist then national.

CAIRThe Permanent Revolutionary CANRThe Vanguard PAIRThe Shock Therapist PANRThe Strongman CAIGThe World Planner CANGThe Planner PAIGThe Technocrat PANGThe National Conservative CLIRThe Anarchist CLNRThe Syndicalist PLIRThe Exit Capitalist PLNRThe Secessionist CLIGThe Commoner CLNGThe Municipalist PLIGThe Free Trader PLNGThe Classical Liberal

Rows: centralized → decentralized. Within each half, rupture then gradual.

This page is not a diagnosis

The Exit Capitalist is a box, and a box throws almost everything away. It keeps which side of each line you landed on and forgets how far. Two people in this box can be at opposite ends of it, and somebody two points the other side of a line has more in common with this type than with their own. The four axes are real. Where the lines were drawn across them is a decision a person made.

The point

Cutline tells you the margin it used to hand you each of your four letters — including when one of them was a coin toss. That is the part every other quiz leaves out. And you are fourteen. You are supposed to change.

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