The mistake of the perpetually online is thinking that what you wanted ever mattered. Peasants would lose half their crops to taxes, in a world where there was

The mistake of the perpetually online is thinking that what you wanted ever mattered. Peasants would lose half their crops to taxes, in a world where there was not a single state provided service. There wasn’t even a state really. There has never been a world where the average person doesn’t get shafted.