Oddbean new post about login | logout The double edged sword of living in a highly developed and highly indebted economy. Did you know Denmark has the oldest royal family in Europe and only a 36% debt to GDP ratio? America doesn’t even have any medieval castles, And you have to work your life away like a Japanese salaryman. I will do some paperwork to own a money printer.
But that paperwork is just there to throw you in jail if you fall out of line. And that's on top of all the other BS paperwork that's just dirt in the gears of the economy. Not serving anyone except the unelected bureaucrat. You don't really own that money printer if the government can seize it at any point and continually collect royalties in order to shore up their power elsewhere, now do you?
Yeah it’s not like that in other countries. Russia might be comparable but it is much more normal to be a criminal in Russia if that is your thing, But Russian prison is much worse. There are real Anarchist enclaves, But it is much easier to just bitch about bureaucracy than to actually change your life. It’s what most Americans end up doing.complaining.