You don't want people to be free to build anything better?
An increasing amount of resources are being confiscated via the legacy system, and they are being allocated in ways that increase the cost of living & make life worse for most people.
How is anything supposed to improve unless we can reduce the amount being confiscated by force & allow people to instead allocate their own resources to things that serve them?
It doesn't really matter tho, because I don't think people like you can stop us 😘
You and I have had discussions like this before. I think it can be reduced to a chicken and egg problem. What Mr. Brock and I are saying (I think) is the powerful will create or co-opt governments, that the force already exists before the government does.
The government is a consequence of force, not the source.
And you are both just clearly wrong. The proof is that there are times & places where people have been free & prosperous, & the difference between what we have now & those other times/places is the govt power that large special interests have to control & hide behind. Societies always collapse under too much govt. The politicians are the richest people in Venezuela & most other corrupt & collapsing societies. Govt is just institutionalized crime.
Walmart can't build an army without people fighting walmart & refusing to do business with them, but they can buy political influence & weaponize the cops & tax authorities against people to extract your wealth without most knowing it is being done.
Every communist revolution simply assumed control of a government that was already built by hierarchical elites. The military and economic powers predate communism. Communism became what it hates because power always corrupts.
Bakunin and the anarchist faction tried telling this to Marx and the communist faction from within the broader 19th century leftist movement. Marx didn't listen and now folks like you think all leftists are communists and statists.
Communism is mostly just a philosophy developed/adopted to sell slavery to the slaves. The people who promote it (at all levels of society) always want to live at the expense of others (& Marx certainly was too). The poor person what wants communism has more in common with the corp oligarch who wants a political structure that serves him at the expense of others than either of them have in common with people who want to produce & trade value for value.
I have never met a wealthy business owner who didn’t adhere to the tenets of Marxist Communism to the letter. Czar, bourgeoisie, proletariat. Ironically they all claim to believe in the free market. Free, as long as they have massive leverage.
I have met quite a few wealthy people who generally have the right ideas, but fiat definitely rewards far too many who don't.
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