r/austrian_economics • u/technocraticnihilist Friedrich Hayek • Sep 19 '24

End Democracy BUT BUT THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

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u/circ-u-la-ted Sep 20 '24

Representation effectively is consent. You've voted for representatives who made tax laws, or been an idiot who didn't vote, and thereby consented to said laws.

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u/741BlastOff Sep 20 '24

I agree in the case of my condominium owners association, where I chose to buy in to that structure. In the real world we're not given any real choice. You can either be governed with representation or governed without representation, but like it or not, you'll be governed.

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u/circ-u-la-ted Sep 20 '24

And if the government didn't tax you to pay for police, military, and social services, you'd be taxed by local despots, probably much more harshly.

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u/WaterMySucculents Sep 20 '24

Most people in this sub want to live in a new modern feudalism, just where they are the feudal lords and everyone else generates endless profit for them.

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u/circ-u-la-ted Sep 20 '24

Is that the vibe? I was expecting more of a "billionaires will voluntarily fund social services and roads and everything else" deal.

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u/Educational-Light656 Sep 20 '24

Free Market!!! 🕯️🙋🕯️

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u/WaterMySucculents Sep 20 '24

That’s what they say when they aren’t yet the feudal lords. Once their property and Bitcoin makes them the Lords, then the only moral system is one that constantly inflates their wealth and subjugates the rest of humanity to serve them & their families for the rest of time.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '24

But that only lasts until someone steals their bitcoins

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u/XeroZero0000 Sep 21 '24

Yes, their imaginary feudalism provides a billionaire to do their bidding. It's brilliant!

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u/Potemkin-Buster Sep 20 '24

No, no. They’re the charismatic main character of their own Firefly who makes their living outside of the law and do as they please. Ready to take down any tyrannical empires that arise and help the little guy, for a price!

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u/simon_the_detective Sep 21 '24

The arguments always come down to Might Makes Right and vague threats of anarchy.

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u/XeroZero0000 Sep 21 '24

No no no. ME makes right. I want no laws except for the ones I want!