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Because you likely made a million dollars using the benefits of the government. I.e. you had an educated workforce who drove on government roads to get to the f
by arbitrary_name 5y ago
Because you likely made a million dollars using the benefits of the government. I.e. you had an educated workforce who drove on government roads to get to the factory, you were able to protect your ideas via copyright with the threat of government enforcement, etc.
Nobody gets rich by themselves unless they are a pirate.
- adolph 5y ago> Nobody gets rich by themselves unless they are a pirate. Is your claim that pirates generate economic value even in the absence of other people? Or is it a claim that pirates lived in anarchical democratic communities whose thriving in the absence of government exemplifies Taleb's idea of anti-fragile?
- sershe 5y agoSure, how about they can send me a bill for my share of roads and educated workforce (granted, this could be provided much cheaper via selective immigration while the US still has the leverage of being attractive to immigrants)? I'd like to not pay my share of e.g. invading far-away countries, or supporting those not paying taxes, or many other such things.