Nope, that's just you Americans who get fucked on that one.
I am not an American.
Not sure how it is in the US, but in Canada at least, the cops don't generally care unless you're selling. Back in my younger days when I actually smoked pot, we never gave a single thought to the cops. I was caught several times with pot, and the cops never once did anything.
It is still illegal to peacefully ingest a natural substance in Canada. How is this fair or rational government?
Because it's a small world, and all the land is already spoken for, basically. You can easily own land though. Granted, you'll have to pay property tax, but on the flip side, I'm assuming you don't want to put a raging forest fire out yourself.
Forest fires don't apply to everyone, and you don't need property taxes to fight a fire. Property taxes are a lien.
Incorporation is by no means necessary to establish a wealthy, lucrative, and world-wide organization. Take the various mafias around the world, for example.
So you are now equating Walmart to the mafia? Please tell me it is because they sell frozen pizza.
Sorry, I meant Nigeria, not Somalia. Oil companies are robbing the people blind of their oil, for one example.
So then, your argument that corporations ruined Somalia, or that anarchy will lead to corporate rule (since it hasn't in Somalia) isn't valid, right?
Too often, people here are confusing anarchy with a lack of order. Order comes from social relationships, not from the fist, the club, threats, government or corporations. Order is what we do socially, naturally.
When two neighbors share a hedgerow between their houses, and maintain it without conflict, specifically violence, that is an order. And it is done voluntarily, without anyone hurting or coercing anyone else.
Likewise, when Canada and the Asia-Pacific countries sit down to negotiate regional policy and trade, that is anarchistic. They order themselves socially based on their mutual self interest. They don't bring guns into the room and fight each other until only one faction or country remains.
Anarchy is simply an-archy. "Without rulers". The notion that anarchy is disorder is something perpetuated by popular fiction and government schools. And there is no great conspiracy why the rulers wouldn't want people to consider a world without rulers. It's like the myths of the wild, wild west which are almost totally a 20th century Hollywood creation.
I'm no econimist, but decreasing the purchasing power of the middle class also increases unemployment. Which hurts the economy more in the long-run?
You just avoided my explanation of how purchasing power is created. It comes from production, not legislation.
The various governments of the west could legislate $100 an hour minimum wages, and it wouldn't make people more wealthy. Prices would just rise to the new measure to compensate.
That's one of the fundamental issues in this thread. You can't paint stripes on a donkey to make him a zebra.
We can't take a dangerous, irrational human being, and vote him into government, and he becomes an angel.
We can't write a bunch of words on parchment, call it a Constitution or founding document, and suddenly everyone who swears an oath to it is bound to it without any free will to do differently.
We can't pass a law that people earn "X" wage, and suddenly they become richer, any more than we can get the central bank to print more money to make everyone richer.
Miracles belong in the bible. They don't happen in parliament or congress.
