damn now i have to go to berlin

There is another lesson in this - technology is a great deterrent to make coercion much more costlier. Sure in this case you might sympathise with the agents being hurt, but the root causes of this are far removed.

Governments apply bad policies, they enforce complete doxing on every corner with kyc, companies thrive on harvesting all the data, we have created the society which enables this and created the bad policies that need enforcing this. Its a bell that cant be unrung. The tech and data are out there, what needs to change is the society.

I think my record on hold with IRS is around 3-4h when I needed to bug them for EIN for my startup, and yes, they sent it back over fax.

IRS: the present is already here, its just not equally distributed

I tried to cancel my subscription to the government

having password managers integrated with browsers and cloud synced is the biggest trick the security industry pulled on its customers

i understand now why you love governments so much @Solomonsatoshi, its because you think you know everything better than anyone, no matter how close to the thing they are. its a match made in heaven and explains everything very clearly.

you haven't replied to my yesterdays question about definition of government for you.

its a structure of governance yes, but at what scale? what are its roles? you're throwing the word government around but there's a lot of governments out there.

theres governments that are fairly laissez faire, and theirs governments that are up your fucking asshole for everything.

your position is lack of imagination and indoctrination into the way things are. going from first principles you don't need anything remotely what resembles todays western government for society to exist

can you not imagine a scenario in which you're not owned and ruled? does that give you so much inner peace that you cling to it so desperately? Do you think nothing better can come out of humanity that the current sad state of affairs?

Your position is one of desperation and futility.

i should've linked the previous one in the post #1086360 :)

This is just another psyop laying the ground work for more governmental power and control

Neither can or should be trusted

the government is mafia - because if you don't pay them they will come and fuck you up. what i'm proposing is that people have a choice and are not forced into anything, which is exactly the opposite of what you're advocating for because now I MUST pay whatever taxes or regulation the government wants to impose on me otherwise they come and take my shit, my freedom or my life. I have no choice, I can leave but I can only do it on their terms, unless I'm willing to go into the wilderness and throw my passport away and have no contact with "civilized world".

You seem to be very eager to give up on everything just because of a potential scenario yet don't see that all of this is already happening to you, you've just been told its the best way. Your property is not being protected, its being take away from you. at an exceptionally high rate.

i think for starters we need to define the terms we're using, because narrow contract enforcement agency is very far from what nowadays government looks.

contract enforcement on voluntary basis is VERY different to the extortion the governments of the world are doing now where you are forced into a relationship you never wanted nor needed in most cases.

you assume that people don't defend their property or won't make coalition, partnerships, pay enforcement agencies on a free market to enforce the rules?

society doesn't collapse because you don't have a fat bureaucrat 1000km away telling you want is best for you and how you should live your life. Many animals manage to establish societies and live in groups yet somehow humans need to have a ruler because otherwise everything falls apart?

tribes existed for a long time before any nation state government started imposing their will and involving itself with every aspect of your life. You just assume that because you can't think of a different way that this is the only way. Services that governments provide can (and are usually done much better) be provided by businesses as that is exactly what a government is suppose to be - a service. Not a tyranny of majority that doesn't exist, with ever expanding coercion and singular power across everything in your life.

government is eroding property rights, not enforcing them, thats the point.

Nobody really owns their land/house anymore, theres only a few countries left without at least some kind of property tax. Which means you don't own shit because if you don't pay the tax sooner or later the goons from the government will come kick you out of YOUR land because you owe they taxes for YOUR property.

And that is done by monopolizing violence, preventing you to protect your own property (including yourself) because they will throw you in jail for that. You don't own anything, you've just been given permission to use it while you're subscribed to the worst service under the sun, to which subscription was forced upon you at birth

Governments are plunder. They don't take the role, you are forced into this relationship at birth.