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A contract is a contract, for as long as you can enforce it.
Unironically this... It's is why libertarianism is a joke.
Having read some modern libertarian military porn, that's exactly the part they leave out.
Yeah. Without a state apparatus that has a monopoly on violence to enforce contracts, the person with the biggest army gets what they want. And guess who would end up with the most power in that sort of situation? Billionaires.
It's a fast track back to feudalism. I've seen someone here refer to it as "Immortan Joe fantasies" and I thought that was pretty apt (Immortan Joe is the villain in Mad Max: Fury Road).
It's surprising how many people still operate on the concept of temporarily embarrassed millionaires ($100 million dollars in current value). This is not the vast majority of us, and never will be. It's like when my dad would talk about the "death tax" which is pretty much a thing...if you have over $10 million in your estate and a whole bunch of other caveats. He never had that before he died, and I didn't look into the details of the inheritance tax before he died, either.
Canada's current version of the death tax is the capital gains tax change...which is something like an additional $13k if your income is over $300k of capital gains. And people respond with, "But what if I sell my house?" If your house is your primary residence (and you owned it for at least a year), it's tax free. If it isn't, it only matters if it appreciated by $300k, and again I think you can handle the extra $13k.
I can very much relate to this unfortunately (I think Trump even raised the threshold during his first administration). And no matter how many times you try to explain it, and show them sources that back you up, they just ignore it and continue to believe what they already believed. I truly do not know how we're supposed to deal with this level of brain rot.