Re:Silicon Valley stirs over proposal to end popular QSBS ta...
by imtringued on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @08:53AM
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>They're like mobsters who shake you down, rich or poor.
Well, that is how it began. There were mobsters that shake you down. Then people decided that they don't want to be shaken down. They formed a government to fend off mobsters and then it turned out that the ruler is also a mobster so they implemented limited terms and elections to decide on the next mobster knowing that a society will inevitably succumb to external mobsters if it does not manage its own mobsters.
Therefore the moral argument that governments are bad because they are mobsters is extremely weak.
Well, that is how it began. There were mobsters that shake you down. Then people decided that they don't want to be shaken down. They formed a government to fend off mobsters and then it turned out that the ruler is also a mobster so they implemented limited terms and elections to decide on the next mobster knowing that a society will inevitably succumb to external mobsters if it does not manage its own mobsters.
Therefore the moral argument that governments are bad because they are mobsters is extremely weak.