Hello again. For instance marriage: Now you can't go out all hours of the night, go on extended vacations or wanderings, and you have to watch some television shows that your spouse chooses. You have to agree on family expenses. But what is the other side of it?
In marriage each takes up the burdens of the household, maybe both have incomes, each wants to support the endeavors of the other, in an easily agreed upon framework. For me, I have always been immensely more free with the synergy of marriage. (Taxes are even lower.)
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Now this part I don't get. 330 million people will never get along, so ipso-facto, we need as few laws as possible. You paint a great picture of the jungle. In the jungle there are rabbits and there are wolves and tigers. Must I assume that tigers are tigers because of meritocracy? That they work harder and are not lazy? (Hey, in a perfect "free society" we all have the opportunity to become a tiger.) Just get off your ass and do it.
I am sure that centuries of history have proven that the tigers have suppressed the rabbits (their workers), with subsistence wages and 16 hour work-days. And even made their children work a full day from the age of 8. That might be a preferred society for some.
Then we come to an overarching definition of freedom. I must be able to do anything I damn please, and since I am not that radical, I'll prove it by letting the tigers feed wherever they want.
BUT THAT IS NOT THE FREEDOM I WANT AT ALL!
I want a stable life and stable economy that is monitored and stimulated to have room for most of my neighbors, and I want protection from predators, such that I can develop my skills and interests in peace and quiet, both for me and my family. That is my definition of freedom. I also want to pay for services that are a common interest. I need infrastructure, and full education is a vital interest for all of society. I do not want to leave a growing illiterate pool of dissatisfied, (hungry and thieving) people festering on my city's outskirts. I do not want gang warfare ruling the streets at night.
If the tigers can write the tax laws in their favor, and push the government to buy only their products by the $ billions, I want to curtail that. I would do it with another LAW.
Many people have a silly idea that without government we would all be free "nodes" bobbling around and having a grand time. But that government is only people. Without the institutions, those same predator people who have bought and paid for the politicians will be now running everything directly. They will even all have their own private armies of "Pinkerton's".
"Why do we nearly never hear about responsibilities?" 👀 Really. Well said, Rad.
Freedom is wealth accumulation and power. Let's test this supposition. Lol!
Hello again. For instance marriage: Now you can't go out all hours of the night, go on extended vacations or wanderings, and you have to watch some television shows that your spouse chooses. You have to agree on family expenses. But what is the other side of it?
In marriage each takes up the burdens of the household, maybe both have incomes, each wants to support the endeavors of the other, in an easily agreed upon framework. For me, I have always been immensely more free with the synergy of marriage. (Taxes are even lower.)
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Now this part I don't get. 330 million people will never get along, so ipso-facto, we need as few laws as possible. You paint a great picture of the jungle. In the jungle there are rabbits and there are wolves and tigers. Must I assume that tigers are tigers because of meritocracy? That they work harder and are not lazy? (Hey, in a perfect "free society" we all have the opportunity to become a tiger.) Just get off your ass and do it.
I am sure that centuries of history have proven that the tigers have suppressed the rabbits (their workers), with subsistence wages and 16 hour work-days. And even made their children work a full day from the age of 8. That might be a preferred society for some.
Then we come to an overarching definition of freedom. I must be able to do anything I damn please, and since I am not that radical, I'll prove it by letting the tigers feed wherever they want.
BUT THAT IS NOT THE FREEDOM I WANT AT ALL!
I want a stable life and stable economy that is monitored and stimulated to have room for most of my neighbors, and I want protection from predators, such that I can develop my skills and interests in peace and quiet, both for me and my family. That is my definition of freedom. I also want to pay for services that are a common interest. I need infrastructure, and full education is a vital interest for all of society. I do not want to leave a growing illiterate pool of dissatisfied, (hungry and thieving) people festering on my city's outskirts. I do not want gang warfare ruling the streets at night.
If the tigers can write the tax laws in their favor, and push the government to buy only their products by the $ billions, I want to curtail that. I would do it with another LAW.
Many people have a silly idea that without government we would all be free "nodes" bobbling around and having a grand time. But that government is only people. Without the institutions, those same predator people who have bought and paid for the politicians will be now running everything directly. They will even all have their own private armies of "Pinkerton's".
OH Boy; That IS the Jungle.
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