The entire system is predicated on compliance.
'Pay your tax'.
'Sit still and shut up'.
We get as much tyranny as the masses tolerate.
The entire system is predicated on compliance.
'Pay your tax'.
'Sit still and shut up'.
We get as much tyranny as the masses tolerate.
Granted things are getting way out of hand with these globalist but unless total war breaks out I'll take my chances with the system in place than to have to walk this earth with a gun strapped over my shoulder to protect what is mine from millions of others who'd have no problem taking it.
I think you might be off just a little in your imagining of the future.
As proof I offer your local bank.
Did it get robbed today?
No roving bands of criminals being shot down in the street?
I see no reason that wouldn't persist in light of the cops not being your's, or anybody else's, frens.
This book outlines a way to keep crapitalism in form, but radically alter the functionality of accounting lives in currencies.
This short story does away with currencies, per se, but retains a value judgement of people based on performances.
In freedom one's rep is one's currency.
If you want academic treatments of the subject, I'd start with this guy, he does an adequate job.
Presuming you would want a way out of this dystopia we have brewing.
Right, they leave people any other choice. However, the power is in people's hand, but they have not been able to use it yet.
Do you want to be shot here, in your apartment, or go down to the street?
Do you want to be shot in the street, or get in the truck?
Do you want to get shot in the truck, or go in the building?
Only 5% of us are needed to end this.
But, that 5% has to be willing to swim in the surf.