In Defense of Corporations, Tax Breaks, and Wal-Mart

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@Brainpolice

Again, state privileges are not up for grabs equally by everyone (the highest privilege being decision-making power internal to the institution itself, and the 2nd highest being direct patronage with those who do have such decision-making power; none of this is possessed by the average person). There is no basis for you to claim that it is, that is simply absurd. The average person does not have a direct relationship with the state in which they can easily access legal privileges. The state more fundamentally engaged in patronage with various oligarchies or narrow interest groups. Nothing about La Boetie’s writting suggests otherwise, so you bringing his writting up seems to be irrelevant.

Anybody can benefit from the state and anybody can become a part of it, the fact that the rich living of the state intervention in the market is easier to see than the poor receiving welfare is not relevant. Both receive welfare, both are bought off by the state

@Brainpolice

In the case of your example, the point is that the “right” to rob people to pay for welfare, the bureaucracy and connected moneyed interests in patronage with it, is a legal privilege exclusively held by a few.

And? If nobody accepted welfare and refused the welfare state. They wouldn’t occupy those positions.

@Brainpolice

Where did that comment even come from? It doesn’t follow from anything stated. Noone is forgetting the evil of the state entirely: to the contrary, the evil of the state is being pointed out! You’re being unecessarily hostile and bigoted.

Unecessarily hostile? Coming from a LL I found that amusing

@Brainpolice

Big buisiness’s relation to the state is not the same as an average individual citezen’s relation to the state.

Of course it is, the state rules by consent. It does whatever it can to gain this. That’s the state only relation to the people, placating them so at to sustain itself.

@Brainpolice

Again, and that point is irrelevant and does nothing to counter my fundamental point. The fact that the state is in some sense dependant on widespread approval does not negate the fact that it is an oligarchy in patronage with oligarchies and its privileges are selectively and unequally distributed.

And? I’m guessing the fact that they’re unequally distributed is what really annoys you. This still ignores the simple fact, the state buys off big buisness to sustain itself, just as it does with the poor.