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Reddit mentions of The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy
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| Release date | October 2001 |
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> Ahh, so the historical role of government doesn't change with man's evolving in your eyes? Technology and human advancement require more control over your life, not less.
So, you're arguing in favor of government controlling our lives? What is government but people? What is government but us?
> And "big government" is strictly decided on by you?
No, I actually said it's a subjective term almost to the point of objective meaninglessness. I said the exact opposite of "big government is strictly decided on by me".
> I thought we could use the past as a guide to the future, and compare a relatively low 4% of total GDP in the hands of government as "smaller government" as opposed to today's approach of 30% of GDP as "big government".
So, to you, nationalization of industries = big government? What if everything is nationalized but the military is minuscule and the policies are liberating not oppressive?
> I also didn't realize that my education and hard work was actually a privilege.
Well, you didn't realize there's more than one definition of privilege. Privileged just means well-off. Paranoia much???
> I thought I had earned my money, and people like you were simply confiscating as a large a portion of that wealth as you could, so that you wouldn't have to take responsibility for yourself.
You're wrong. How did you earn your money? By making society better? By helping people? Or just working a very general, value-neutral job in regards to society? Working =/= deserving. Contract killers work very hard. Does the simple fact of their working mean they deserve their compensation? You should read The Divine Right of Capital. You seem to have a terrible case of it. Deserving is just as subjective as everything else, and if your fellow citizens decide that your conception of deserving is flawed compared to theirs then they have a right to correct the wealth distribution, because that's what living in a state entails. That is the role of government. If you don't want this to happen you should move to Somalia or something.
Educate yourself as to the tenets of statism.