If You Were King...

People are capable of governing themselves. Only parasites would desire power over others.

Government at its best is communities comming together for the betterment of the community. This narrator is just pissed off he has to share for the common good. Consumer society encourages this though because corporations want to replace community with consumer goods. Pitiful.

In addition... If you want to see a society that doesn't have a government (advocated by this video) take a look at afghanistan.

ahh, another ridiculous oversimplification.

Big error: Taking from "the peasantry" and then giving back to "the peasantry" is a big fail.

Two things:

1) If you noticed the big pile of cash at the kings feet, you were observing a misrepresentation. Government spends the money that it takes in. All of it and then some.

2) The government takes from all the peasantry to accomplish things that the majority of the peasantry agrees with. It accomplishes things that can't be done otherwise which benefit all.

All of the infrastructure projects that the king "stole" to fund resulted in a huge societal benefit. Typically they do. The only thing the government spends money on that doesn't have a net positive effect on the economy is tax cuts and subsidies (upward redistribution). That's a logically provable fact.

The enforcement is important: as it isn't a monolithic peasantry, and it is the NON peasants that are the ones bitching about having to pay more.

The king is the only one standing between the have mores and the have nots. It isn't exactly unfair either since infrastructure investment (the most ridiculous thing on the planet to be against) benefits EVERYONE even the rich, they are just selfish about writing the damned check every year.

Big Error:

No one wants to force people to work out and eat right. However, there is a difference between a scientifically toxic diet that is disguised as health food and a system where people are empowered to make healthy decisions WITHOUT the person profiting off of the behavior controlling the system.

At the end of the day, this King is ridiculous. No one who disagrees with this video would actually behave the way this king is portrayed as behaving.

And yes, you have to hurt people to protect people, because there are predatory individuals who live to keep societies functionless and corrupt.

Examples: authoritarian companies that screw their workers who don't have other options, corrupt governments and "freedom fighters" in 3rd world countries that live on the fear and abuse and death of others,

Pretty much anyone who doesn't give a fuck about their neighbor, which libertarians are... almost by definition.

Yawn, more BS, but thanks for the listen anyway.

if I was king, I would make Vlad the Impaler look like Tinkerbell, lots of fried rats on a stick.

I already am the king. I just have a really small kingdom.

If I was king I would build a massive rocket that attaches to one side of the Earth and have the planet propelled into the Sun. Game Over.

I'm a man of many faults, but delusions of grandeur aren't among them. Don't even think I would want to be king.

If I were King I'd make you give me all your candy. BTW I really appreciated the BS propaganda.
-V'd

Screw government!

Very well done! Kudos!

Awesome video!