• Mniot@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    Without force

    Whoah, whoah. Why’d you rule that out?

    Your business plan: quality goods at reasonable prices. My business plan: hire some goons to kill you and take your stuff.

    Historically, this has a lot of precedence.

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      2 days ago

      Because I’m not an anarchist. There is a role for government in maintaining its monopoly on the use of force.

      But nothing else.

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        1 day ago

        OK, cool. That definitely helps things.

        I think where we’re disagreeing is that I think in a capitalist society the promise of money will inevitably corrupt the government (because it’s made of people). Maybe it can be avoided if the government performs additional regulatory action to stop anyone from getting too wealthy, but that sounds like beyond the limits that you want to set for government.