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There are many fundamentals. Death and taxes in particular people don't want to hear, but are much more fundamentally enforced by God Himself than whatever ideals we might cling to.

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The real question of death and taxes is: How much? How long can we live? How much should we pay?

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Yes. On how long we can live, there are various places to invest our efforts, with some tradeoffs: individual human, individual bloodline, culture/ideas, social institutions, civilization, humanity overall, earth-origin generalized-life overall. What can we get? Let's find out.

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On taxes, afaict, you pay what Caesar can take from you, minus what he magnanimously defers as a grant to you to manage as you see fit. That latter component is significant if caesar is wise and long-term oriented and you are competent, but not near total.

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If you have no ability to shape the system, you have to accept it, but if you have any ability, then you must fight for a better future for all humanity. Taxes / policy are a big part of making that happen. As for Caesar: sic semper tyrannis

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Yes. Much complicated given partial ability to shape the system. Given large ability to shape the system, you are caesar!

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Let's hope no one gets a rank above consul

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I don't think this axiom is necessary but there are yet unsolved conceptual problems in how to reconcile citizenship with hierarchy.

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"Libertarian" fans of Caesar - Hayek is spinning...

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Becoming a Caesarist to own the Senate

1:05 AM · May 4, 2020

All of this doesn't sound like the libertarians I know who are skeptics of power in all its forms

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