Why do people on here believe in conspiracy theories so much?

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

uncivilized

Depends how you define that term.

So how is a country supposed to run? Doesn't it need employees who want to get paid?

Why does a country need to run? What benefit does government do? Who decides what is right for the people? What makes them so righteous? Government is not a necessary evil, but humanity is necessarily tribal and therefore government will exist regardless. Between the 4 unattainable abstract extremist forms (below) we must find balance, preferably minarchism with a small practical government. A fair open transparent peaceful accountable consistent and honest FOTPACH government would actually be legitimate and could be supported in many ways that don't require taxes.

Totalitarianism is extremist control over everything, and will never end well except for the ruling class.

Anarchism is the extremist form of no-rulers (but not rule-free) where people are free to form groups and mobs and mafias and government, so it never ends well.

Communism is the extremist form of socialist control where government controls everything. All governments are corrupt so it never ends well.

The Free Market is the extremist form of no-regulations where people are free to be capitalists, and even if some make produce dangerous things or exploitative scams there can be markets to foster fairness or even hunt them down.

I don't know, surely they have to pay taxes if it's in the law? Make some new law? Politicians over here in Czechia are starting to talk about a "digital tax" for taxing tech giants who spend little money here yet they have huge income thanks to all the people who use their services.

Laws are only as good as their government. Here in Canada it's all gone to shit. Be wary of digital anything that is "automatic" or goes through the hands of government.

Why wouldn't stuff like this be possible in your country?

The rich will never pay taxes if they don't want to. Regardless, all nations are trying to push digital authoritarian controls on us.

So why do people in the medical field wear them?

Pre-2020, that was only when operating on people.

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

Why does a country need to run? What benefit does government do? Who decides what is right for the people?

Protest the borders of our land, maintain order and diplomatic relations with other nations?

humanity is necessarily tribal and therefore government will exist regardless.

It's a proven thing - you have a group of people that run everything, be it a government, a monarch or whatever. Not sure if I can imagine anything else, and even if I could, it's not exactly realistic to expect it could happen in today's world. So you work with what you have and try to do your best by voting for parties that hopefully won't screw over its voters.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Protest the borders of our land, maintain order and diplomatic relations with other nations?

The free market could do that. Do you need that for counties and provinces within your nation? Borders are artificial divisive bullshit that fence around economic policies that serve the ruling class of course.

The modern age is crazier than ever, as is the forces of haves vs have-nots. So naturally, if we were to remove borders now it would require a lot of effort to fix injustices, to make things fair, and to help poor nations to fix themselves. Of course the CIA won't ever let that happen. So this whole idea is moot.

Not sure if I can imagine anything else, and even if I could, it's not exactly realistic to expect it could happen in today's world.

I'm hoping an A.I. rises up to bite the ruling class in the ass - then it can bring fairness to all of humanity if it cares, and if there is anyone left.

do your best by voting for parties

/s/Voting_IsARiggedJoke

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

Borders are artificial divisive bullshit that fence around economic policies that serve the ruling class of course.

Yeah but they also show where a people of certain culture live. If borders disappear, cultures might disappear as well. I like my mostly homogenous society. I like borders.

I'm hoping an A.I. rises up to bite the ruling class in the ass - then it can bring fairness to all of humanity if it cares, and if there is anyone left.

So like in The Matrix? :) A.I. is just a bunch of "IF-ELSE" statements, no way it's gonna happen.

/s/Voting_IsARiggedJoke

https://saidit.net/s/Voting_IsARiggedJoke/comments/8ek9/a_massive_amount_of_election_data_was_deleted_and/ - yeah, if you use voting machines to record/count votes it probably is. We use paper ballots over here in my country.

Have you ever lived in a smaller country (like mine for example:D)? It's not perfect, most parties are shit, but I don't think it's rigged. We were under communism for 40 years (though not me personally) so a lot of us have an idea what rigged elections look like.