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by calibraxis 4479 days ago
We're not free, except for those of us with enough money to buy freedoms. Take the US, the country of NYT and HN. Its imprisonment rate (and maybe still absolute numbers) eclipses every other nation.

In the lives of most people, power still requires violence. (Privileged people don't have to be aware of this.) Hence all the police and military. Otherwise we would have another system, and money (if it exists) would have a different meaning.