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imsofuture | 5 years ago

Private property entirely depends on violence -- that's not hyperbole, there's ultimately no other compelling force to enforce societal norms and rules (see: police).

It's only our familiarity and compliance with the system that prevents us from encountering that violence.

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Grimm1|5 years ago

Economic transactions are a mediation in place of violence.

guscost|5 years ago

Exactly. It is the worst system, except for all the others that have been tried.

“Business is war.”