If you're using such a loose definition of government that it includes families, then everything is connected to government.
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These decision structures are very old and very powerful. Be careful with them.
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Right, so there's no economic system that isn't related to rules. The statement "capitalism is related to gov't" becomes trivial.
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. Given that property is socially constructed, we should define property rights which create the world we would prefer to live in
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when I first saw it that way, I damn near fell off my chair. Now it seems very ordinary. You saw en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_C ?
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so real Q: who defends the have-nots? State? Who leans towards the rich?That's core of problem.
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State is itself a landowner, so by nature cannot arbitrate. Property needs a fundamental concept check.
indeed. there's a brutal critique of libertarianism simply renders the State as a monopoly landowner.
communism is proof-of-concept for state rights. We need a property concept w/human rights at the bottom.
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Under that model, tax is rent, law is based on use licensing for remaining on the State's property etc.
I've never heard squealing like that from the Libertarians who understood this case and fled from it.
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state is not some divine intervention. Made by people.