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*So why peddle fantasy?

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• Retric 4y ago
  > So peddle fantasy? Because people believe, look at religion or the prevalence of gambling addiction. Humanity isn’t a collection of rational actors optimizing their long term self interest it’s a collection of fools lead around by the best storytellers. A dictator who wants to maximize their personal power will peddle fantasy just as quickly as anyone running for office because it works. > not just a document that exists to recognize the government as rentier Eminent domain means the government can kick anyone off any property to be sold to the government or private party, the deed holder is compensated but they don’t get to say no. So sure old deeds are respected as much as any of them are, but how is that different than maintaining existing leases when you buy a rental property? Arguably renters have more rights with respect to their landlords than deed holders with respect to the government. PS: As to your argument about funding for police etc, states vary wildly in stuff like income taxes and sales taxes but in the end they are simply extracting resources from a productive economy the specific form those taxes take are only really relevant due to knock on effects, money is fungible. Taxing fuel or taxing miles driven only matters when EV’s show up.