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You know, we don't actually have to do this. The people could block the gates and prevent the delivery of the turbines. The local fire department could fail their inspection and prevent the gas from being turned on. The UPS could "mysteriously" go up in smoke during it's commissioning.

None of this is preordained. We, the phyical persons, can choose how we want to live, and what constraints the corporate persons must accept.

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All this at the very low cost of: your job. You can't have an unbreachable blockade 24/7 in front of there, very soon they'd send police to disperse. Fire dept has to justify the failing, if everything up to code and the inspector make it fail it will delay for at most a week and the guy will lose his credibility. The guys delivering and installing the UPS are just trying to make a living too, destroying the thing will get them fired while only delaying a little the time getting another delivered. You are replaceable.

Do you think the rest of your life will be of very high quality in any scenario?

Yeah if you want to end up in the US penal system. I assure you, you do not. I know I don't.

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