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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
GLD 375.93-1.8%Nov 14 4:00 PM EST
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To: THE ANT who wrote (142818)8/3/2018 5:17:36 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 217789
 
Society doesn't set the rules, nature does. Society can set rules for the short term such as robbing people by taxation via democracy which they tell themselves is a good thing, just as slave owners told themselves it's a good thing.

But telling yourself something is a good thing doesn't make it true even if the democratic vote is 90% in favour of keeping the other 10% as slaves.

Wrong taxes are those that make the society weaker and less competitive with others that will supersede the dud ones. Their are no inherently wrong taxes. Society sets the rules.

Natural laws define what's a good idea, not votes.

Tax is mostly just envy dressed up with democracy as a fig leaf to cover naked greed and theft.

Meanwhile Apple is worth $1 trillion. World record. Google Amazon Microsoft are not far off.

The 20th century industrial revolution oil, car, machinery, moving parts behemoths have faded to has-been status. Cyberspace is the big deal now.

The industrial revolution replaced muscle while the cyberspace revolution is replacing brains. Brains are infinitely more valuable than muscle.

Shirtless muscular hordes are just so many chimps. They can't create much value. One man with a keyboard can supersede huge tribes of mindless monkeys. Mindless monkeys voting by the million doesn't make them more intelligent even if 95% of them vote the same way.
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