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I don't know why you'd be happy having the investigation cost orders of magnitude more, in a functioning democracy that's just straight up more money on your tax bill. Oh wait...

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Tax bill? The goal would be to have lawyers for that too

But more pragmatically, the agencies themselves just use their budget allocation on lower hanging fruit

Yeah that's exactly the point I was making "I can spend my way out of this democratically passed law" is not really democracy is it. It's capitalism at the cost of democracy.

"Ideally, I can have enough money and power to benefit from society without contributing to its upkeep or being bound by its rules."

my thoughts on it are a bit deeper than that, but the simpler summary of those thoughts (which I haven't detailed) are that the inspiration didn't come from nowhere. there are enough examples where thats the case.

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