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What about all the goods you consume that you do not pay for, but were developed over the decades, centuries, and millennia and by your contemporaries too: Lang
by forapurpose 9y ago
What about all the goods you consume that you do not pay for, but were developed over the decades, centuries, and millennia and by your contemporaries too: Language, liberty, civil rights, the system of laws, security, roads, economics, finance, wheels, computers, mathematics, much of health care and education. Are you paying the Einstein estate for relativity? King James' translation team for their Bible? Alan Kay for all he did that you use? All the FOSS developers? The Suffragettes for your vote?
If not for taxation, who will pay for the police that keep you safe, the education programs that likely educated you (assuming you had some publicly funded education) and most of your customers, employees, and business partners? Public health that prevents epidemics? The list goes on forever.