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Yeah, we can all agree scalping is wrong, but that fault is not the government's responsibility to correct. The government is not an ultimate authority. It exists to mediate between people when individually lack the capacity to help themselves, such as in military organization, taking down criminals, and setting standards than don't set themselves*. It is not a government's responsibility to repair every wrong or fulfill every need. We first need to consider the reason it exists to know what is supposed to do.

*(mixed incentives, or bad incentive structure, cause an unsettled or negative effect in the market, like professionals profit more the more need you have, so a negative incentive exists to artificially create at least a perception of need, and this applies to healthcare especially)

Eric ✝️🇻🇦🇨🇦🇵🇹 2y ago

I agree. But the statment that gov exists to mediate between people who cannot help themselves needs some controls around it otherwise good people can again justify their overreach by saying well the children cannot help themselves, we must enforce (make it law) our education curriculum for example because the parents don't know what's best for their child.

The Spartans had what is called krypteia where they would murder random slaves to keep the population under control. I am not suggesting murdering the bureaucrats but maybe term limits or some sort of 'purge' where 20% of government gets fired.

Like the ineffective debt ceiling but for staff. But I'd hope it would be effective. Just spitballing an idea here. Because my thought was around controling unelected bureaucratic & managerial staff that don't have much accountability and can operate almost with complete immunity. Like the 3 letter organiations CRA, SEC, CIA, FBI, FDC, etc.

Or just stack sats and opt out? Haha 😆

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James A Lewis 2y ago

Yes, agreed. The controls ought to be the people, especially heads of households. The more people remain ignorant of their responsibility to self-govern the more they abdicate it, forfeiting their right to those who desire power over others. This is the real issue: not that evil people exist but that otherwise good men do nothing about it.

Proper government is a mediator between men, organizing them in ways which they would be unable to achieve apart from one another. It is a collective decision making apparatus which does not usurp the individual authority, rights, and responsibilities of free men but augments and organizes their capacities to the benefit of the common good.