The objective of the predatory super-rich and their political handmaidens is to discredit and destroy the traditional nation state and auction its resources to themselves. Those super-rich, in turn, aim to create a “tollbooth” economy, whereby more and more of our highways, bridges, libraries, parks, and beaches are possessed by private oligarchs who will extract a toll from the rest of us. Was this the vision of the Founders? Was this why they believed governments were instituted among men—that the very sinews of the state should be possessed by the wealthy in the same manner that kingdoms of the Old World were the personal property of the monarch?
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Revolt of the Rich: Our financial elites are the new secessionists (by Mike Lofgren) | The American Conservative (via ianwestcott)
It’s funny how this manifests itself physically in the tech world with Seasteading.
This was a great article.
(via ianwestcott)
