> It is too bad, but it's your government. "Too bad, but it's your monarch. He's anointed by God. You must care about him". Not really a very strong argument.

> It is too bad, but it's your government. "Too bad, but it's your monarch. He's anointed by God. You must care about him". Not really a very strong argument. > Think of NASA - the greatest explorers in the history of humanity, with nobody even close - is a government agency. USSR had dozens of space projects, all by a government ministry. Doesn't mean you'd want to cherish the regime and all its inefficiencies & injustices. And the Chinese government was building huge ghost cities where no-one lives at the greatest pace in human history, with nobody even close. Yet that isn't considered a positive achievement. The thing is governments are taking resources out of economy. People don't devour money, they'd spend them or invest anyway (using their own scale of preferences). They could go to a cafe, sponsoring this industry, to a journey, buy a new car, start a new business. But after the central authority takes that much away, there will be that much less for the industries of people's preference. That means new people wouldn't be hired, new car models created and produced, new enterprises started; no new building would appear that otherwise could. And the central authority will at best build something useful at twice the price; because private citizens are motivated to be efficient, the state bureaucrats don't. And at worst, the funds will be squandered, directed to their oligarchic pals, stolen.