None of this requires political change or violence. It only requires you to cooperate directly with others rather than through the bureaucratic middleman. Every transaction you conduct outside the system—every bitcoin payment, every handshake deal, every favor traded in a network of trust—is a vote for a different world.
It also means refusing the tribes the state creates for you. You don’t have to choose between corrupt political factions. You don’t have to participate in culture wars that keep you distracted. You don’t have to treat your neighbor as an enemy because you disagree about which emergency to panic about.
Stop Fighting Your Neighbor: The Mechanics of State Power and How to Opt Out
My latest with Mises
https://mises.org/mises-wire/stop-fighting-your-neighbor-mechanics-state-power-and-how-opt-out
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