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> Taxation [is] enforced by violence... taxation is either extortion, robbery or theft Perhaps, but less so than money. People wouldn't recognise other people
by orra 4y ago
> Taxation [is] enforced by violence... taxation is either extortion, robbery or theft
Perhaps, but less so than money. People wouldn't recognise other people as having millions or billions of wealth unless that was enforced through the violence of state capitalism, and a legal system protecting banks, creating cops and prisons.
Why would they? Millionaires aren't a natural concept; it's something our society allows.
- golergka 4y agoJustice (in any possible variety except “might is right”) isn't a natural concept too; it's something our society allows. You could also say that justice is a “social construct”. So what? Does it mean that it's something not valuable or desirable? I don't think so.
- orra 4y agoThe legal system is primarily a legal system, not a justice system. Mainly, however, I am pointing out how absurdly reductionist it is for you to say “taxation is violence”. As you say, social constructs—taxation perhaps—can be “valuable or desirable”.