this is why they're calling themselves world leaders these days. Public servants was a cool time to be living in. 

 So true  

 You will accept it because the state has a monopoly on violence. 

 At the end of the story they usually end hanged.  

 Eva should get on Nostr. 

 💯 

 This was a paradigm shifter for some strange reason. It’s so simple but yes! 

 Our Founders understood that governments just do this over time. 

Brett Weinstein has a great monologue discussing how corporations become evil over time.  He’s an evolutionary biologist and he explains it as just self selective behaviors that are increasingly more and more selfish. He uses google in his example.  It’s really worth a listen.
In any case, governments evolve in precisely the same way.  Over and over for the last 5000 years. 

 It’s a great point. I like Brett Weinstein a lot.  Do you know what episode that is? 

 Agree with the overall sentiment, but Americans pay lower taxes than the rest of the developed world. 
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/10/24/among-developed-nations-americans-tax-bills-are-below-average/ 

 All i heard was baaaa 

 Yeah, those pesky facts. So sheep-like.  

 Just because we pay less than others in the developed world doesn't mean it's not too much 

 All in the name of safety.
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