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 Arguably, labor, luck, and trade are some of the key engines to property accumulation. If anything, force is another factor, which the state subsidizes in exchange for a massive cut, as well as surveillance of you, your family, and everyone, the ability to violate your property rights at any time, and the ability to commit endless atrocities in your name, and on your dime. It's a pretty bad trade. The state then assure you this is the only trade, as it strokes its arsenal of weaponry that you bought it.