@JonKramer @godpod what do you mean? Should the state build and operate a road network?

@aldente @godpod should the state have access to billions of dollars to fund wars? Or to subsidize oil industries? To create a prison industrial complex compliant with the 13th amendment?? To fund police that keep us in our place?

Is the state any better than billionaires who depend on public opinion to keep their billions? I say it is FAR worse. And I LOVE roads.

@JonKramer @aldente @godpod how is "the state having access to billions of dollars to conduct wars"
different from
"we're all individuals with no state here to tax us, but we're pooling our billions of dollars voluntarily without government coercion to hire a bunch of thugs to topple a third world government so we can steal their resources but I stress again that this is not government coercion or confiscation of our cash"?

@gzuckier @aldente @godpod you asking me?

It isn't. That was the point of my original question.

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