I 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

I 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.