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How did we get from a Constitutional Republic to a Democracy, if not by way of the mainstream media ??

in a Democratic welfare State owned by its State employees (and not its protection customers), an overwhelming number of individual citizens are enticed into becoming rubber-stamping "pseudo-employees" who don't show up to work but are paid handouts and subsidies in exchange for tacitly approving everything the State does, including constantly expand and raising costs (after all, 'government costs' are employee wages, and employees are incentivized to increase their wages) by taxing wealth and debasing it to the benefit of State coffers and employee/pseudoemployee salaries.

the directly-taxed producers of wealth are too numerous and disorganized to resist the theft that is approved by their pseudoemployee neighbors.

an extremely well-resourced and comptent individual or small collective can simply escape this or negotiate to their benefit (think Elon), but the mass of medium-resouce, no-handout-receiving wealth producers sit in the negative sweet spot for State harvest via "democratic" rule making.

(Bitcoiners may yet escape this if they're smart and recognize their position in time)

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Kip Ashlynn 3mo ago

Nothing radicalized me more than working for the government, the better work I did the more I was punished for "making them look bad" it is astonishing how mismanaged it is. Pseudoemployees is a fantastic term for those folks who stay looking busy shuffling paperwork but cannot actually do math 🙄

vinney...axkl 3mo ago

Pseudoemployees are worse than that: they're non-government-employee voting citizens. They're paid with subsidies and various other forms of welfare, and in exchange they keep their "pseudo-employer" in business appropriating property from everyone else.

Kip Ashlynn 3mo ago

Ah I see, thank you for clarifying!

kevskewl 3mo ago

Is it possible or even likely, that this "extremely well-resourced and competent individual or small collective can simply escape this or negotiate to their benefit (think Elon)," was always the case, including Nation states, fraternities and religious organizations of course?

vinney...axkl 3mo ago

Absolutely! It was basically _only_ the case in history. Lords, bishops, fief rulers, merchants - wannabe rulers had to deal with these high-agency individuals who were much harder to extract from and had a much easier time migrating to a friendlier protection provider. Its only the modern democratic welfare state(post-1700s) that directly taxes enormous masses, much to its benefit.

kevskewl 3mo ago

Thanks, much appreciated take and understanding of how Vatican Papal Bull declarations are being carried out through today in perpetuity. Ya think?? My thoughts at least.

vinney...axkl 3mo ago

wut