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Aka taxation!
by cellis 3y ago
Aka taxation!
- vkou 3y agoI'm pretty sure you can tell the difference between the two.
- 9991 3y agoBanditry is when the baddies drop by periodically to demand a portion of your labor on threat of violence. Government is when they don’t leave.
- EasyMark 3y agothe last guy who stole an Amazon box off my porch didn't put up a school for my kids, the road in front of my house, help the homeless guy I gave my second burger to the other day get out of the cold, make sure the water out of my tap didn't kill me, etc
- yMEyUyNE1 3y agoYeah, there is a huge difference between opportunist petty thiefs and organized crime bosses.
- Dudhbbh3343 3y agoMany large drug cartels pay for schools, give out food to the poor, and control some forms of crime to increase public support or at least prevent their protest. Once organized crime gets big enough, it's really difficult to distinguish from a weak government.
- bryanrasmussen 3y agoSure and many feudal warlords grew the same way but at some point the Castle decayed away and became a tourist destination and what was left behind was the community and governance. Once organized crime gets really big, it stops being crime and persists on organization alone.
- Dudhbbh3343 3y agoI agree, but I would argue that the label of "crime" is mostly semantics. The violence (or at least the threat of violence) of the crimes still persists, but whoever is the most powerful group gets to change the label of their violence from "crime" to "law enforcement".
- marcosdumay 3y agoWe call those "paragovernamental organizations", for obvious reasons. If they get too powerful, we just drop the "para" on that name.
- 9991 3y agoOf course, he left.
- mr_toad 3y ago> I'm pretty sure you can tell the difference between the two. Paying money so you don’t get roughed up looks pretty much the same whether it’s a bandit or a king doing it.
- vkou 3y agoHere in the US there aren't a lot of kings, but if you have the fortune of living in a commonwealth nation, you're free to get rid of yours. Unless you're in the UK, though, King Charles is not exactly asking for anything from you.