Yes, you are right. Ultimately the greatest evil is thinking you have a good government. Democracy is the most insidious of tyrannies. I think the best government would me as Uber Bosse with perhaps you as Sekond in Kammand. I would be fair to everyone as long as I got paid a lot, had my pick of good looking women, and didn't get any resistance to my progressive policies. Supreme penalty for resistance to righteous government policy would be banishment to the Arctic Islands or permanent welfare status.(Casual resistors would wear a bright orange code number indicating their criminal category on the front and back of their resistor-jumpsuits.) The death penalty would be outlawed as it does not allow proper revenge.
The dead cannot suffer.
No one would be sent to prison as the anxiety of dealing with a paranoid society cannot be duplicated in jails, where basically all responsibility is relieved of the prisoner. If you want punishment, let them pay taxes and listen to bosses. A goal would be to make sure that 10% are banished, 15% of society is in the resistor class, 25% are in the working class, 25% are government toadies and 25% are administrators, lotus eaters or serving maids.
This is much like Canadian society now. Take Ontario. There are 8 million people. 1 million work in government. (Lotus eaters, serving maids and admin), 1 million work for businesses that paid for government contracts (toadies). Perhaps 1 million work for money losing businesses (working class), 2.5 million are children or housewives, and the remainder are sick, old, on assistance or EI in jail or the military, or Indian reserves.
Breakdown as follows
1. Government 1,000,000 2. Crown Corporations 200,000 3. Government Monopolies (Bell) 200,000 4. Government Contract "Houses" 800,000 5. Military 50,000 6. Indian Reserves 100,000 7. Housewives 1,200,000 8. Jail Inmates 100,000 9. Children 2,400,000 10. Sick and Infirm 200,000 11. Aged 560,000 12. Asylums rehab etc.. 200,000
Working at jobs but unable to make money because of excessive taxation and government interference in commerce 1,190,000
Total 8,000,000
If we brought the wage slave level up to about 2 million it would allow us government lotus eaters a much better style of effete dominance.
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