[tjic]

1) 100% agreed

2) What I find amusing about jwz's blog is that every time he has to interact with government he gets screwed - massively massively screwed - yet he still thinks that anyone proposing less government is self-obviously a nut case.

[smsm42]

There are literally millions of people thinking the same. Of course getting business permit is costly, onerous, full of meaningless bureaucracy and nonsensical rules and power grabs, and sucks the life out of anybody for months - but if you think it can be done otherwise, you're a nut. How one could just come and start a business without some very smart and knowledge people in the government validating him? Then we'd have businesses which aren't perfect!

[cpeterso]

jwz probably does not bother to blog about all the times he interacts with the government and doesn't get screwed.

[smsm42]

So you think if someone is beaten by police and complains, he should also not all the times he wasn't beaten by the police in order to have balance? This is not the case for balance - not being screwed is normal state and you don't need to do anything to not be screwed. It is the cases which one gets screwed which need change and thus need to be brought to everybody's attention. You can't say "the system works" because not everybody gets screwed every time, but you can say it does not when one gets screwed frequently.

[rhizome]

Having a reason to criticize aspects of government has nothing to do with following a small-government philosophy. You may be projecting your own preferences onto his reactions.

[Confusion]

You're assuming that with less government he wouldn't get screwed as much. However, you've provided no reason to assume that with less government, he wouldn't get massively, massively, massively screwed++ by what remains of the government.