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Laeserin | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +5 
 That just makes us a normal industry, really.
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mleku | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 specifically, new industries are the most predated because of their speculative value, and if they are disruptive to existing oligarchic power structures, doubly so

if there was ever a day when the human species understood that government is a fraud, this would stop happening
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LibertyFarmer | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Which is a horrific ideal. Government is supposed to only exist to protect our rights, contracts, and property from other bad actors. Yet here we are...