The_Dunedan

It might seem like a Koan, but it smells like an evasion. How is the threat to shoot someone if they don't hand over their money any different from the threat to shoot someone if they don't hand over their money?

Appalachia. Entire county has less than 9,000 people, and that's counting the illegals who work the Christmas-tree farms. A "male human" down the road is one of the 4 who work, but only because he's forced. He's the neighborhood child molester, just out of prison for impregnating his 13-year-old stepdaughter. He can't get any benefits, so he had to get a job. Most of the rest of the street pretty much just sit there, unless (as happens every five years or so) one of them burns a trailer down. Somewhat more frequently violence is involved; someone assaults someone else, or gets arrested for threatening someone and then assaults the three Deputies arresting him, for instance. The really fun one was the guy who was growing 30+ cannabis plants in his backyard, driving over them with his bush-hog as the DEA helicopter was circling over his house.

I don't care if you don't believe it; you're free to come and see for yourself. And no, I don't think this percentage translates across the entire welfare state, but I know that assholes like my neighbors exist everywhere.

Where did you get -that- idea? Plutocracy is rule by wealth, or rule by virtue of wealth. I espouse the idea that nobody has the right to rule over anybody by force, whether that force is "legitimized" by State execution, great wealth, or simple interpersonal violence.