@guineuIndepe@lmldias@_Credible_Hulk Why would I be competing with Amazon to make food for myself? I'm not trying to start a company, in this hypothetical, I'm just trying to eat.
@lmldias@guineuIndepe@_Credible_Hulk The need to eat is part of existing generally. That's not coercion by nature and fixing that does not require giving money to billionaires. It's just easier to buy food than to grow it.
@guineuIndepe@lmldias@_Credible_Hulk Starving will happen regardless of the existence of state or economic pressure. That is a natural pressure. No one is obligated to give you food.
@lmldias@guineuIndepe@_Credible_Hulk I am free to not buy a ham sandwich. I can make my own. I won't go to jail for that or be killed if I resist. The same cannot be said for not paying taxes.
@lmldias@guineuIndepe@_Credible_Hulk You are welcome to try to produce everything you need. You are also free to exchange what skills or goods you have to get what you can't make. That's not oppression, that's just life. No one else is obligated to give it to you. To expect otherwise is to expect slavery.
@lmldias@guineuIndepe@_Credible_Hulk "oh no, I have to put in effort to live and people sell items for money so that I don't have to go get them on my own"
The argument doesn't negate the existence of the state. The argument is that You can't opt out of State authority when you can opt out of economic authority. This has nothing to do with private armies. I can simply not buy stuff. The state can still exists. Private militaries forcing you to do things within a territory is a state
@lmldias@guineuIndepe@_Credible_Hulk Who is talking about a private army? I can simply not buy from a private party if I don't like them. There is no such option with the state.