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Tesi asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 2 months ago

Would life be better without government?

I was just thinking, the cavemen survived just fine... why are we under the rule of others that were born richer than us. I don't know, this entire thing reminds me of the flat earth conspiracy that people tried and failed to disproof.

Update:

please note this is satire... i am fully aware of this sort of stuff... and I am not a flat earther unfortunately... have a good day i guess...

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  • 2 months ago

    You couldn't deal living one day as a caveman. Plus you would be at the mercy of the guy with the biggest club! Please tell me you don't understand that if that environment you want would be survival of the richest. YOU have a Hell of a lot more rights than you would EVER have under the system YOU want!!

    You may have been just thinking...but you didn't THINK ANY OF THIS through. If Bill Gates wanted your house, he'd just take it and there wouldn't be a damn thing you could do about it unless you had your own private militia!

  • Mark
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    2 months ago

    Without government, we would all be under the rule of the rich.  Money is power.  The caveman were in the tens of thousands, not billions of people and they never had a monetary system.  We do not know how well they made out because there are no records.

    Cavemen were hunter-gatherers.  There is not enough land for everybody to live like that.  Intensive farming methods are what keeps the population fed.

  • 2 months ago

    For you, yes....all criminals hate government and laws.

  • Anonymous
    2 months ago

    No but neither is life under complete government control, we need a government that looks after the "little" people and regulates capitalists, so people like bill gates can't monopolize things like farmland.

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