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 Governments are like parents
now everybody knows there are compassionate, and loving parents
and everybody knows there are manipulative, and vicious parents
 
 ...and everyone knows that a prerequisite for being an adult is not being dependent on your parents anymore. 
 Good incentive for evolving away from authorities 
 I really hope so 
 Parents, whether good or bad, must engage in real work and earn money—at least until their child is old enough to work. Governments, on the other hand, extract wealth from citizens throughout their lives, from birth to death.