I was referring to how the people work and the government takes their money and “distributes” it, but most of it actually just goes into the government’s pockets…
And who is “the government”? Elected officials? Bureaucrats? Do you think the low-level grunts at the tax agency are living high on the hog? Or do elected officials take your money and hand it to their buddies in the form of lucrative government contracts? And who is elected? Capitalists consort with each other and choose who among them is to represent you. You’re conflating the bureaucratic apparatus of the state with the class that controls it (capitalists) and in doing so losing sight of the actual material reality at play.
I was referring to how the people work and the government takes their money and “distributes” it, but most of it actually just goes into the government’s pockets…
And who is “the government”? Elected officials? Bureaucrats? Do you think the low-level grunts at the tax agency are living high on the hog? Or do elected officials take your money and hand it to their buddies in the form of lucrative government contracts? And who is elected? Capitalists consort with each other and choose who among them is to represent you. You’re conflating the bureaucratic apparatus of the state with the class that controls it (capitalists) and in doing so losing sight of the actual material reality at play.
That’s not how it works, the people work and capitalists make all of the money, and use the state to prevent people from getting uppity.
please reconcile this thought with police budgets, and then ask yourself what the police actually do and who they really protect
I would like it if you were to expound on this in detail
“I was referring to a thing that I imagined which has no relation to real life”