▲ | psd1 6 days ago | |
> The wealthy surely don't get better policing _Surely not._ > rich people pay wayyyyyy more Citation needed > so they should get more government services ...such as corporate welfare, political influence, favourable prices on public land and institutions, regulatory capture? The acid test for your frame is whether you would have made as much wealth on a desert island, with no market, no value-added inputs, no communication and no currency. If so, then great, you truly did not depend on society. I admire your self-reliance. Otherwise, you have benefited from the sum effort of every human, living or dead, in the chain of causality leading up to the circumstances in which you made your pile. I'll leave natural resources aside. I _love_ that a bunch of libertarians are seasteading. More should go. I am happy to write off tax debt for anybody who goes seasteading for, let's say, five years. If your raft calls into port for trade, then you pay duty and sales tax, but at that point you've admitted defeat. It's not like they'll accept your raftcoin anyway. | ||
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