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jurgenburgentoday at 4:06 PM1 replyview on HN

> Rule of law, functioning government providing services

Jokes on them, without rule of law and functioning government to enforce it there is no ownership.


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ygjbtoday at 4:15 PM

Jokes on you. When there isn't a functional system of government there is nothing to stop rich psychopaths from paying poor psychopaths killing those who get in there way and declaring themselves dictators.

In the absence of effective laws to align people in the direction of the society they want, and constant effort to realign in response to pressure, we will fall back to tribalism and all of the attendant forms of feudalism and government that came before it. Ownership then reverts to might (or those with the resources to buy might) makes right.

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