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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Every time a child is burned alive, every time hundreds are made homeless by a drone strike, every time a book is banned, every time an innocent is murdered by police, I’m part of that, I funded that. I hate it.

With zero taxes modern society would fall and the outcomes don't change for the better either.

  • lawlessness would rule the land
  • industrial capacity to produce books wouldn't exist, so bookbinding would revert to artisan level so there likely wouldn't be a book to ban because there wouldn't be enough of them to ban.
  • "police" would be paid/fed by the local strongman that would happily kill you for whatever arbitrary reason he or bossman wanted.
  • homelessness would be so shockingly common it would be the norm and not the exception

All of the problems you listed would be minuscule compared to finding something to eat or a dry place to lay your head to sleep where you would be safe.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

"But what if I was the local strongman?"

-Libertarians