• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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    17 hours ago

    It doesn’t solve the underlying problem of wealth disparity. You can keep chopping day after day, year after year, but the inevitable solution is going to be: take the wealth and redistribute it. AKA Taxes.

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      17 hours ago

      If you give them all free baskets for their heads long enough you will be fine taxes require a government those don’t seem to be doing good at this

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        17 hours ago
        1. Not having a government leads directly into a violent government

        2. Many countries do this task quite well.

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          15 hours ago

          Plenty of places have little or no government and no billionaires even with States actively trying to fight the idea. Government is only one way of organizing and not a very good or egalitarian one

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            14 hours ago

            If you “organize” a nation full of people to decide on the “rules”, then that is “government” writing the “laws”.

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                If Wikipedia were the sole organization operating within a territory and they decided what people were allowed to do in that territory, then yes they’d abso-fucking-lutely be the government.

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                  12 hours ago

                  So what if there isn’t that and everyone kind of gets a say

                  You know that’s not even how government worked for most of history right that’s super recent and like newer than steam engine real politics is complicated

                  That’s not even how modern us government works

                  Edit: so my ex gf was Canadian. She lived in Los Angeles in winter. A sanctuary city. Matters because she was an immigrant and didn’t do any paperwork about it. Feds would arrest her city cops were forbidden from arresting her for that and we both smoked a ton of weed which feds say is illegal but the state/province if California said is legal and fine and needs to be taxed but the feds would fuck your shit up for if you were known for it.

                  There is not one authority deciding what is and isn’t okay even here and now and it used to be way more fractious complicated. Imagine if I was catholic or wahabbist.