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It's not worthless now. I meant to say once it would have been made worthless by the government trying to make up for the loss of income from 20 million strikers, the way you seemend to have implied by the reference to central banking. Anyway, that part is not important to me. What is important, you seem not to care about statement number 2 one bit. That's interesting. It bothers me quite a bit. So, not sure whether you have read the text ... would you buy a jewish villa from the government in the 1930 for a great price ... with no mercy and a kick?

Maybe you're right in that. If the government and the society at large is willing to take the step down to the Nazi level. But if not? What are they going to do? Build a jail for 20 million people? Openly ignore law breakers of that sort? Still looks to me like a government's problem. And if they do ignore them, then you have the Gulch without the need to hide. You can even dump the dollar, made worthless now by the printing presses, and use something private instead. Think bitcoin for example.

Do you think you can recruit, by enlightening, a law-making majority of the electorate for the kind of change you suggest? Not going to happen ... as long as you have something left on you worth looting. Taxes on the other hand ... if 20 people refuse to pay, they have a problem called jail. If 20 million refuse, the government has a problem.

Hello, I have written a short story (~30,000 words) - Platonic dialog style - with the main protagonist gone on a limited form of a Randian strike. You can read it in full here Someone is probably going to tell me that this is a wrong subforum, but I do not wish to discuss the literary merits of the text, only the nature of the protagonist's strike. If someone cares to read the manuscript, we can discuss these two statements in this thread. The rebellion is badly inadequate, as the protagonists still contribute something of much value, albeit of intangible value, to the looting society. The rebellion is unjust, as there are services the protagonists cannot opt out of, eg. national defense, and they blankly refuse to pay for them.