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 Yes, but actually no. The ability to enact and enforce laws is expressed through the government, but different interest  groups are constantly fighting for the power to influence the government. The elite pretty much dominate that struggle, obviously, and are successfully suppressing wages as the dollar debases, pocketing the difference and putting it into real assets. 
 Yes I agree with this.  And WHY do these elites influence government?  Because it has power.

So the less power government has, the less these leeches will push to take control. 
 The govnt only has  this power because it is privately owned, because they aren't actually govenring in the interests of anyone except capitalists.  Corporations and govnts are one and the same thing.  Just as security guards at nightclub are part of the business of the nightclub. 
 There's never going to be the utopian government you desire.  It doesn't exist.

At least with a private business, it is voluntary.  Government is force.  You're interested in blind allegiance to the crown.

Hey maybe instead of you owning your nostr key, we should have the government decide what you can type?  Let’s have a vote! 
 I don't like what he writes. So we are now 2:1. Let's censor him. He doesn't need free speech anyways.