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That's the whole point in small government.

To make the individual completely dependent on the economic order for everything he needs, all the goods and services he consumes, and for the employment he must have to afford those goods and services. If he doesn't like his sitation, he has the "freedom" to withdraw from his employment, (quit his job) or to become an employer himself. Yeah, right. He also has the freedom to starve, a freedom he may wind up exercising no matter how much or how skillfully he works to avoid it.

Meanwhile, without any of the alternatives offered by other forms of organization (such as self-government) he is forced to rely on only one institution for all social and economic support, an institution that considers him, at best, as an expensive obligation which must be disposed of as quickly as possible.

In the meantime, government goes on, maintaining the physical and security infrastructure that capitalism requires, the cops and courts and, of course, the fleets and legions that protect the markets and the raw materials. Whatever it takes. The rest of us are on our own. Get a job.

And the capitalist, (or those who fancy themselves capitalists), are all for this. They feel right at home in this system, it rewards their agressive, competitive natures, their boundless aquisitivenness. That is, until the system turns on them, which it eventually does. Then they go looking for a scapegoat to blame it all on. How they were betrayed, stabbed in the back, lied to, abandoned, sold down the river.

Get a job.

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