• j4k3@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Feudalism. We already live in a system of neo digital feudalism where you own nothing. DeSatan master of the Dick Handle state is aiming to bridge our digital and analog feudal future faster than it is happening without him.

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      10 months ago

      Feudalist societies still have taxes. Traditionally it was laborors offering part of they harvest to the owners of the land on which they worked, which actually now that I say that just sounds like corporate america is a feudalist society. Gross.

      But anyway, without money there would basically be no federal government as there’s no way to pay any of them (except for the corrupt ones, so all the law makers are still there). With literally 0 money, we’d be in a perpetual government shutdown, and basically the 50 states would start acting as independent nations under their own ruleset. Sure, they could still adhere to federal will, but with what justification? If someone commits a federal crime that’s not explicitly criminalized state-level, who’s getting paid to prosecute? What incentive is the US giving to states to remain on the same page with national law? They can’t even take any incentives away as punishment because they wouldn’t have been able to pay for any existing incentives to begin with.