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Some people believe that government control of the money supply is a form of theft. It's certainly a form of indirect taxation (via inflation), and it forces yo
by darawk 7y ago
Some people believe that government control of the money supply is a form of theft. It's certainly a form of indirect taxation (via inflation), and it forces you to rely on the responsibility of your government. Some people believe that eliminating the need to rely on the responsibility of other humans is a terminal good.
- UncleMeat 7y agoAnd some people believe that wifi causes cancer. A startup selling wifi repelling clothes to prevent cancer would be rightfully criticized.
- darawk 7y agoThat's s strange comparison. Wifi <-> cancer is an empirical question. The question I articulated was a values question. They're not really comparable.
- CosmicShadow 7y agoI don't know if even sci-fi could imagine 7 billion people not needing to rely on anyone even remotely fathomable. If you don't want to rely on anyone, become a hermit somewhere in the deep woods. I guess if your government is a royal family taxing you to line their own pockets that would seem like theft, but otherwise seems hard to believe it could be true, but people will believe anything. The world is complex, the economy is complex, and stopping a country's economy from tumbling out of control with all the internal and external variables is non-trivial.