Donald Trump is implementing 'The Sovereign Individual' in practice in the USA.
The state is a service provider.
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Each state seeks to strike a balance between shackling its citizens to itself and giving citizens enough to convince them to stay within its grip.
It's hardly new. States all over the globe have been doing this at scale for a long time ... though the book was prescient there, as it was a pretty niche thing in the 90s.
Imagine spending $1 million on a passport for a country with skyrocketing property prices, crippling taxes, and runaway inflation. The most retard investment lol