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by seventytwo 48 days ago
We are. All of us. If enough of us agree, we can make any rule we want.
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So "enough of us" can take anything by forcing the asset to be valued at an artificially high value, force them to sell it for taxes, and then reduce the price down again to keep it ourselves?
Yep. That’s how democracy and law work.
Mob rule is not something to celebrate.
How do you, personally, distinguish between democracy and mob rule?
In the extreme there is no distinction. This is why the US and almost every other democracy are not direct democracies.
Things he wants = democracy

Things he doesn’t want = mob rule

No, it's called rule OF law. Not rule BY law. We create a law, like property rights, and we work within that framework. We don't suddenly decide that property rights don't matter any more because someone happens to have stuff we particularly want to take. That's how dictatorships work.