Aurelius on Nostr: The State isn’t awful because humanity cannot design an executive body to manage ...
The State isn’t awful because humanity cannot design an executive body to manage social needs. Social needs are there, and I don’t care to build my own roads. A leaderless body is chaos. The State is awful because the rich and powerful have co-opted it for themselves.
The property owners, particularly within the FIRE industries (finance, insurance, real estate) are the State’s managers. They write laws to protect themselves, write tax policy to diminish their contribution, shift tax burden onto the people and their labor, vilify the poor and immigrants, imprison those who complain, and roll up personal rights to protect their monopolies. States fall into these power traps easily, but the underlying virus is concentration of wealth and power.
The property owners, particularly within the FIRE industries (finance, insurance, real estate) are the State’s managers. They write laws to protect themselves, write tax policy to diminish their contribution, shift tax burden onto the people and their labor, vilify the poor and immigrants, imprison those who complain, and roll up personal rights to protect their monopolies. States fall into these power traps easily, but the underlying virus is concentration of wealth and power.