The ultimate “you will own nothing and be (un)happy” is the state, in EU countries, now taking an average of 57% off our salary in taxes and all kinds of mandatory contributions, and giving us little to nothing in return.
I can live very well with voluntary transactions where I subscribe or not to some product that I’ll never own. But I can’t say no to the state and their eternal threat of violence.
p.S. preemptively, knowing the kind of feedback this content will get: got to love it when Americans give me the “at least you don’t go bankrupt by going to the hospital!”. No, I give the state most my money every time I pay them taxes, so, not a lot of space left to go bankrupt once in the case of a medical emergency. What about letting people choose?
I can live very well with voluntary transactions where I subscribe or not to some product that I’ll never own. But I can’t say no to the state and their eternal threat of violence.
p.S. preemptively, knowing the kind of feedback this content will get: got to love it when Americans give me the “at least you don’t go bankrupt by going to the hospital!”. No, I give the state most my money every time I pay them taxes, so, not a lot of space left to go bankrupt once in the case of a medical emergency. What about letting people choose?