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>Property rights are meaningless without a social order that protects them.

Where do you delineate this worldview from a simple extortion shakedown? e.g. your house is more valuable when it isnt on fire and your family isn't dead.

It still leaves the question of what is an appropriate tax to pay for social order? is it 100%?




The worldview I outlined just suggests there is some amount of obligation that we all owe to society for enabling our basic rights and prosperity (with varying degrees of effectiveness, unfortunately).

And it also argues that some sort of governance structure is always present — official and explicit or implicit and unintentional - so we might as well try to make it a good one.

The details can and should be debated and discussed. The project is never over.




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