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Unit of a Count | 5 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +5 
 People go into Government and Corporations to be taken care of and to be Protected

I went into #Bitcoin for this very reason
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AbstractEquilibrium | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Some folks go into Government & Corporations because they are monopolies for folks of some skill, and competition isn't permitted.
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Unit of a Count | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 And, they're taken care of and protected
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AbstractEquilibrium | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Sure, but we can't logically claim that those are causal factors of their employment in the context of a monopoly