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by boeingUH60 1139 days ago
I'm not an anti-government person or anarcho-capitalist, but in my third-world country (Nigeria), private roads are better built and maintained than government-funded roads. Private companies build their roads to standard because they actually want to please customers, while government-funded roads are given to substandard contractors at a low price and the rest of the funds are stolen...the government maintains a monopoly, so there's no other choice than to drive on the horrible roads they build.

But in this case, this is more a problem of corruption and incompetence than the existence of a government...just saying that "build your own roads" is not the absolute rebuttal you think it is.
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polyamid23 1139 days ago
Yes, this was not a serious answer to this. I replied a stupid statement with an equally stupid statement.
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mughinn 1138 days ago
Sure, you were being stupid only because you though my argument was stupid
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polyamid23 1138 days ago
Kind of... I was being stupid, because there is no argument but a statement without any reasoning behind it. I could say that the state that I live in provides free education, which is not something that necessarily robs my freedom and gives power to corporations. So at least, it's not "everything" the state does, right?
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mughinn 1138 days ago
Yes, the education system is hand made to make the students into good employees for the corporations
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polyamid23 1138 days ago
Not sure if you are trolling... Do you have any references or something. Again, this is just a statement without any arguments or am I missing something?
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mughinn 1137 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_schooling has several sources if you want to read, specifically the first argument, of the school system as government control

But I didn't think I'd need sources, it's almost a meme how everyone thinks school is where your curiosity dies.

Everyone says we need schools, just not the ones we have, or the ones we had, or the ones we will have.

The school system is the monopoly of the government to say what is important for children to learn, mostly to obey authority

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