I don't think the comparison stands man:
- If my landlord gives me a shitty service I can choose to tell him to fuck off and go rent somewhere else (he's got an incentive to provide me a good service...
> Changing house to rent and changing country do not share the same level of practicality
That is only because most landlords have noncontiguous holdings whose relative size is small compared to a country. Make a landlord's holdings big enough (and all contiguous) and it starts to be pretty hard to leave, especially if your work and family etc. are all on that property
When a landlord gets big enough we start calling him a king, and instead of saying "voluntary rental payments" we start saying "compulsory tax payments"
But they are the same thing. A country is like a really big apartment, and the people who live there are tenants who owe payments to the landlords (the government)
That is only because most landlords have noncontiguous holdings whose relative size is small compared to a country. Make a landlord's holdings big enough (and all contiguous) and it starts to be pretty hard to leave, especially if your work and family etc. are all on that property
When a landlord gets big enough we start calling him a king, and instead of saying "voluntary rental payments" we start saying "compulsory tax payments"
But they are the same thing. A country is like a really big apartment, and the people who live there are tenants who owe payments to the landlords (the government)
