If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can and will hire soldiers to stand over him compel him to submit to its arbitrary will and kill him if he resists. - Lysander Spooner

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Right.

If we simply refuse to build roads, empires and corporations would just build them for us. This roads thing is just too beneficial for them. It gives them power.

Not building roads isn't enough. We must encircle our settlements with a strip of no-road territory.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You can fight them, so just join them, these corporations. But who are they? They are us, people just like us, we built them and now we share in the fruits. Just look at the phone in your hand or the keyboard in front of you. How did it get there? On a ship across the ocean and by a truck up a road. I'm sorry, but you can't have your cake and eat it too.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

A corporation that can grow endlessly, will become big and important. So big, no one can understand its processes. So important, no one dares make any decisions. Then, it will stop acting like us, and begin acting like a giant animal. Now it's hungry, and it wants to eat something.

Small corporations can make phones too. But they can't claim to invent rectangles and sue anyone who uses them. Or force you to use their "free" OS so they can decide what people are allowed to do with their phones. Or create an alliance of large patent owners to force all future developers work with them.

[–]Akali 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's not true. They do become complexe, I'll give you that, but their process are clear even if it would take you weeks or even months to pass through it. They have client and supplier and they are specialise in specifict part of the supply chain. In the Phone you use, there's usually decades of company working on it simply because each pieces are built separatly.

As for Monopoly trying to shape the market and regulate it, there are what are called Anti-trust law which purposes are to dismentle and limit the power of monopoly to regulate the market. Now, there could be an argument as to wether or not these law should be more severe, but they do exist and have dismentle quite a few monopoly in the past, the biggest dismentling being the rockerfeller oil industry.