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It seems as though taxes has stabled within a range of 2.8%-3.1%. It keeps dropping and rising after each issue, but I expect it to drop once we drop schooling from our budget, and drop public transportation from the budget as well. We'll let the market fully takeover those things. Industry doesn't really receive money from The Kory Foundation in Landlordia, it more so receives other beneficial things in exchange for The Kory Foundation's profit.
Well police were not compulsory in English and Welsh counties till (I think) 1856 - even London did not have much of a government police force till the 1820s.
When the (unpaid) magistrates (Justices of the Peace - J.Ps) wanted to enforce the law they called for volunteers to help them - there was also private policing. How well did it work? Well Edwin Chadwick (who wrote the official reports on the cities) said it all worked horribly badly - but he did have an agenda, he wanted the government to take over lots of things (not just policing).
Even as late as the First World War people asked why Rutland (a very small rural county north of me) had to have a government police force (all of two people - a bit like the police force in "Hazard County" in the "Dukes of Hazard" accept the Rutland police did not, I believe, have a car) - as the people there were quite capable of taking local criminals (of which there were very few - if any) to the local magistrates (say the man who owned most of the very small county and was also the Member of Parliament for the place) - on the other hand virtually no one wanted to get rid of government police in London and the other big cities. These were strictly LOCAL police responsible to the local community and policing-by-consent. Hence the once-famous incidents when unarmed policemen encountered armed criminals - and the police got aid from armed ordinary people who happened to be passing by.
Remember owning firearms used to be quite legal in Britain (and in England there was very little crime in those days) and the British National Rifle Association before the First World War was much bigger than the American one.
I am off to Germany today - and one of the people I am going with (in my role as part of the "Twinning" committee for my town in Britain) is still a legal firearm owner - although the increasing regulations mean that there are fewer and fewer LEGAL firearm owners each year (and more and more illegal firearm owners - that is not going to end well).
Xyanth and Landlordia
On illegal immigration - part of the answer is to end government benefits and "public services" for illegals. No "Food Stamps" (only created in 1961 - contrary to the propaganda, people were not starving in the streets in 1960) or "emergency" health care - and on and on.
California was only doomed when the far left judges struck down the Proposition, voted for by the citizens, that limited the government benefits and "public services" given to illegals. If you give people free stuff then nothing is going to keep them out.
Xyanth and Landlordia
Well its official. Landlordia does indeed have small governments forming because of landlords. I knew it was only a matter of time. Whatever, we will just have to raise competition against them.
Isn't that known as "war?"
I am curious. As more and more laws are passed, are the formerly legal firearms owners surrendering their now illegal guns?
Or are the guns conveniently being "stolen" before the surrender deadline? Or are those owners simply ignoring the new mandates and pleading ignorance should the matter come up later? If either of those two things (or something else I haven't thought of) are taking place, how is it working out?
Not all competition against a group consists of war. The small governments are just small organizations like businesses. They have to compete for consumers, which is what Kory is actually trying to create (a world where governments compete for the consent of people just like businesses.)
It is stunning to me how many regions in Nation States are echo chambers and/ or safe spaces for Snowflakes™, liberals, Democrats, socialists, communists... You know, that entire collection of people that make up the New American Democratic Socialist Victim Workers Party.
Seriously, is this the only thing today's under 30 crowd believe in now? If it is, we are all seriously screwed.
New poll in Zentari, come and vote!
Well I can assure you that there is a good number of people who are under thirty like me, who don't support Socialism. Its just that we're a minority among our peers.
Definitely a minority. Most people my age are either apathetic, or vocally socialist; only a few are conservative and most won't speak up about it. What bugs me though is how simplistic a lot of the political thought is among those who are socialist. Even the ones with good incomes ($200k+) just assume that their tax money would go to guaranteeing exactly what they wanted. The biggest problem among people my age is that they distrust the government to do everything except handle their money. In reality that should be the first place they distrust them. I think from there everything else comes together.
The only people I know my age that are reliably conservative are those who have started their own businesses and put on the shoes of job creator. Few and far between. No one else seems to really empathize with employers, nor to understand that our well being flows from our ability to provide for ourselves and those we care about, and that as little road blocks as possible should be placed between job creators and job seekers.
Even a simple statement like "Corporations pass on all taxes to the consumer and their employees." That is obviously true on its face will throw people into unreasoning fits. I mostly keep my mouth closed these days, but every now and then I can't help myself.
Xyanth and Landlordia
I'll never forget the phone conversation I was having right about now, 18 years ago today.
Never be afriad to provide opposition to this growing hopeless movement (Socialism) among our peers. I disagree with them on a lot of things. I remember a friend of mines stating she was okay with Medicaid paying for trans-sexual surgeries and hormone pills, and I told her she can pay for it out of her own pocket instead of supporting government robbery of everyone's incomes to fund these things.
When you make good points like that, our generation can't argue back much because it makes sense. Also, their ridiculous belief that things will be free if the Government funds it, and that is easy to break too because the Government gets its money from robbing everyone's income.
We have to verbally oppose them and let people know we exist to start up an opposition group. Libertarians didn't gain traction by staying quiet, they stated their opposition and made it known they exist.
Xyanth Hey, I may need some of your pirates. Kory is willing to pay.
I used to do so often in person, but it rarely goes anywhere meaningful and often leads to conversations that do nothing for me. After years of that I've been burned out. Further I recently moved up to a larger employer and a more senior position and I'm no longer free to speak my mind at work, at least not if I want to keep my job. HR has a strict "no politics" policy, but as usual it only applies to one side of the political aisle. I've only been here a month th and already sat through conversations deriding the vice presidents sexuality, calling all gun owners deranged, and assumptions that anyone conservative wants to actively starve people in the streets. I know there are other conservatives here, but it just doesn't matter.
In all honesty the money is too good and I just focus on what I have in common with the outspoken ones here and ignore topics we disagree on. What's crazy is I used to work for a company full of european socialists (mostly men) and they would engage me in genuine conversation about my political beliefs, and I always felt as if I could be honest about literally anything. Now I'm in an office full of Americans (mostly women) and its suddenly soft, and I basically have to roll over when it comes to these topics.
But other than that aspect, the work is really rewarding, and I do have conservative peers, but my days are much better when I ignore rather than engage with the braying herds. Life is too short to bother. In nearly a decade, I've converted zero of my friends. They either dont vote, or voted for Beto/Hillary in the last two elections, and this is despite complaining about taxes and the soc-dem. platform. Everything I've said has either resonated with people who already agreed, or fallen on dead ears.
Life is short. I'd rather focus on my own happiness. I wish you well and am happy that you want to spread this message, but I've mostly given up. My uBer driver to the airport was a communist, and it was much easier to just quote the Unabomber Manifesto's critiques of industrial progress to him and let him riff on that (which was enjoyable) rather than trying to preach the gospel of a long forgotten God of free markets that gave us the plenty we selfishly fritter away today. The invisible hand that gave will also soon be taking away.
I think some lessons are only learned the hard way, through decades of suffering, famine, shortage, and gulags. This might be one of those.
Well yeah convincing people takes a long time. However, I was hoping you have chosen to not engage in those topics out of your own choice instead of feeling pressured to and fearful of doing so. I rarely talk about politics to my liberal friends, but when they start discussing politics, then I make my objections known. They mainly think Trump is the problem, and I'm not too fond of the guy either, but I think the whole system is crap and needs to be replaced or at least allow people who hate it to opt out and create their own, voluntarily.
Arrrr.. me matey... What tales pillage and plunder would ye' be wanting to hear, now?
What a unique and special bit of Hell. You have my sympathies for putting up with that crap and my respect for being able to.
And you are promptly attacked while your arguments are ignored?
Ten+ years of saying this stuff with some of my best friends to the point where they can verbatim guess my stance on any political issue and I can't even get them to care enough to not vote for a Democrat gun-grabber.
Yeah, I think I it's mostly a waste of time. I'm choosing not to bother because, the only meaningful conversations I have are with people that are already receptive to the ideas. Other people aren't worth it, and frankly aren't interested. I see no reason to subject them to that conversation, and I see no reason to subject myself to that conversation. And I feel that way about a lot of topics, even outside of the political realm. There are just people that aren't ready to talk about certain topics or subjects, regardless of if it's right or wrong. So I tailor what I say to the knowledge and interest displayed by the person listening. If a child is obviously struggling with their times tables, I don't dive into a conversation about algebra with them.
The only thing that bugs me about my employer is HR ignoring the rules in a politically selective manner. I've spent a long time disagreeing with the majority of the population on a lot of things. It really doesn't phase me and is just "part and parcel" of living and working in a big city. You're surrounded by mostly government educated, media re-enforced people who mean well but simply dont understand the subjects they talk about. Among them there is a healthy undercurrent of conservative energy that you can tap into and have conversations away from the herd. There will never be a large corporate space in the US that's welcome to these ideas. Even less so if you step away from the miseducated, neo-con adopted ideas with no thought behind them. There simply isn't a space where I can say that I'm trying to acquire a functional RPG, just because I want to have one. Nor is there a space where I can say that the worst charities are 5x more efficient than government welfare at putting resources in the hands of individuals. Nor a space where I can say that lobbying combined with advertising has distorted the market so much that we have no semblance of a free market while simultaneously saying that communism would still manage to be even worse than that by orders of magnitude. Nor a space to say that people are different and have inborn strengths and weaknesses, and some of these can't be changed which means that some people are, in general, useless through no fault of their own and mere genetic lottery. This also means that some people do not have full control over their actions and are too weak to overcome their genetic lottery. Nor can I say that while pollution is bad, climate change is mostly a made up scarecrow around the harmlessly benign molecule CO2, that corporate entities use to avoid discussing actual pollution events with real affects on us. Nor can I say that taxation is theft. Or that police are little more than paid pirates to fill budget shortfalls in the city and state budget by extracting resources from the poor. Etc. Etc. Etc.
You can toe the conservative line and gain acceptance from the mostly reflexive MAGA crowd or the warhawks Never Trumper crowd. Or you can tie the SJW line and gain acceptance from smarmy Jews; dyed hair, chubby WASP urbanite women; effeminate men who are secretly resentful of their fathers; and militant minority grifters. Or you just keep to yourself, vote quietly, and only speak up about topics if the individual seems like they could play their half of a potentially enjoyable conversation. Strangers, Friends, Co-workers, and Family have to prove to me that I even should steer the convo in that direction. Otherwise there are a million and one interesting things I could talk about instead that I'm far more likely to enjoy.
Well I'm in a bit of hot water with other economically powerful nations. They embargoed imports/exports to and from Landlordia, so I created a smuggler industry but I know they will deploy the navy to confiscate the goods, so I need some pirates to steal back the goods for my clients.
What you are seeking is a variation on "privateers." Those were private ship owners and crews with "letters of marque." Those letters were a commission to engage in hostile actions at sea, either sinking or capturing shipping from other nations considered hostile, or allied with hostile nations.
Alas, we found the conditions of those commissions to be far too limiting. We chose to pursue a far wider marketplace and not cut the commissioners in for a piece of the action.
New poll in Zentari, come and vote!
Very well then, I'll just spend the extra money to train my own navy to steal back the goods for my clients.
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We built a skate park that we're looking to profit from by hosting skating events.
We are now reclaiming lost settlements from the sea.
And now we're building islands. Rent just increased but once other assets come into the picture, it will go back down.
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