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“What is massively and commonly owned is massively and commonly misused, abused and wasted, for having no ownership in it gives men no incentive to care for it.”
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“Nationalists and globalists hate each other, but really they are philosophical twins; the only thing separating them is degree. A nationalist wants to centralize the nation, a globalist wants to centralize the globe[...] most nationalists are just as bad as globalists, insofar as few want localism and federalism.”
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“It is time for us to move on from autocracy versus democracy and start talking about the involuntary, mammoth bastardizations of each.”
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“Disciplinary society is still governed by no. Its negativity produces madmen and criminals. In contrast, achievement
society creates depressives and losers”
― The Burnout Society
society creates depressives and losers”
― The Burnout Society
“In America:
The voters pay politicians to rent their government.
The homeowners pay property taxes to rent their homes.
The workers pay income taxes to rent their jobs.
The debtors pay interest to rent their possessions.
We live as vicarious owners, as the football fan vicariously is "part of the team," though not a single player on that team knows his name. An adult talking about "his team!" It is the grand delusion of ownership that mass collectives precipitate. And when people falsely feel they own something, they are likelier to invest money with the true owner, buying his stadiums, inflating his stock prices, and electing him to office.”
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The voters pay politicians to rent their government.
The homeowners pay property taxes to rent their homes.
The workers pay income taxes to rent their jobs.
The debtors pay interest to rent their possessions.
We live as vicarious owners, as the football fan vicariously is "part of the team," though not a single player on that team knows his name. An adult talking about "his team!" It is the grand delusion of ownership that mass collectives precipitate. And when people falsely feel they own something, they are likelier to invest money with the true owner, buying his stadiums, inflating his stock prices, and electing him to office.”
―
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