@tldr

If government felt like it actually provided a service, it wouldn't feel so repellant to write multi-thousand dollar tax checks. If politicians actually believed they were servants, they wouldn't be debasing themselves for anything and everything that will keep them in office. If citizens are forced to suffer enough, these obvious facts won't be worth tolerating anymore. For now, in many countries, most of our lives feel just good enough that it's not worth the effort to change the nature of government. (I think AI disruptions will change this calculus, pretty quickly.)

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