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Re:Ask HN: When you feel stuck in life by TeMPOraL on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:25PM (#12147733)
It's not a voluntary contract if you have to sign that contract to survive. At least not "voluntary" in a sense that is meaningful to most people living today.
Re:Ask HN: When you feel stuck in life by zo1 on Saturday July 23, 2016 @06:11AM (#12149004)
As opposed to my "voluntary" contributions and obligations to the state? In that case, it's all about a magical "social contract" that I never signed, and inherited from birth. From birth, let that sink in for a little bit. That is an order of magnitude more slave-like than a voluntary contract that I enter into as an adult.

But when it comes to an actual contract, willingly signed, then "oh but you have to sign to survive". Well yes, except I don't. I can go live in the middle of nowhere and live off the land. You try doing that with the anything state-related, and then tell me how voluntary it is.

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