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> Why is my body (which extends to my means of production) not my own?

You believe your means of production are entirely self-contained which is entirely false. You need all of civilization for your production to be useful. It's not unreasonable to have to pay for that civilization.

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So you're saying I'm indentured to my society? This is sounding increasingly similar to slavery. Using force against someone else to get what you want isn't morally acceptable, and it certainly isn't altruistic; if you disagree with me on that, that's fine.

Of course not. But if you use society to make money then you should pay for that usage. If you want to opt-out of society, you have that option.

If you've been educated in a school, travelled on a road, drank water from a tap, watched TV running on electricity, or worked on a computer that communicates across the globe to other computers then you absolutely have taken advantage of a society with a central authority and should conribute to it.

To believe otherwise is absurdly individualistic and self-centred. We are a social species and everything good we have done come through collective effort.

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