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@ mleku
2025-06-13 13:19:37
mises is definitely right but the part missing from his theory is about how you deal with the criminal elites who have completely taken over government, instituted mass indoctrination to acquire submission and keeping people in a constant state of anxiety that prevents them from realising who is causing it
some people figure it out, and then you get black and grey markets, and the more totalitarian the government gets the more people's very lives depend on this - this is why in second and third world countries people mainly do business on the grey market (ie, no registration, no taxation, all in cash, all gentlemans' agreements)
people on the whole don't understand the criminal psychology in general and especially not the megalomaniac type that largely acquires government power and armies of cops, soldiers and bureaucrats at their command. and they make sure that they never loosen the noose very much, if at all, just maybe pause the slow tightening when the screams get too loud.
this is the reason why in the history of especially the most beleagered peoples of the world, namely eastern europe and west asia, there has always been covert, mostly religious monastic orders who have established mostly secret or clandestine small settlements usually far off the main roads, and whose work keeps things from going completely towards doom. the same in china too, and india, always it's the taoists and buddhists whose actions help people get their lives back together after the kings turn completely tyrannical.