since Mises amply demonstrates in his treatise Human Action that government interference in markets and money leads to real harm, it's not a conspiracy theory to say that government harms society in many ways.
Rothbard points out, echoing what Spooner said, that a gang of thieves need only declare themselves a government and legalise their crimes and everyone is left baffled wondering why things are bad.
everything else is details.
đź’Ż I agree with that, mostly.
I’m just saying that once the thieves are an institution and they hire people to do their work, everyone forgets that they started out as thieves and just strives to “do their job” as best they can, barely ever thinking about whether it’s right. Actually, it’s more likely that they will actively defend the institution because they’re on the inside.
I don’t look at that as a conspiracy, it’s just human software running in a context it was never meant to be run.
