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Re:Leisure is the new productivity by ashark on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @04:21PM (#8882673)
The implicit demand here is that some individuals take on greater-than-usual risk to benefit everyone else, and if not enough people do that then We Can't Have Nice Things. It's a miracle of irrationality that this ever happens. Governments exist largely so we can accomplish things without relying on that.

See also: the Free Rider Problem[1], Prisoners' Dilemma[2]

As for organized bullying... well, surely you can see how well that argument applies in the other direction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_rider_problem

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma

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