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> When you're young, it's easy to have a knee-jerk reaction to authority.

When you're old, it's easy to be an obedient minion.

> But go spend any significant time in a developing nation that lacks basic infrastructure, get close to the people living there, learn about their struggles and their dreams, and then come back and tell me that the solution is to abolish government.

Just because government isn't the answer doesn't mean destroying it is.

> But go spend any significant time in a developing nation

These developing nations seems to have plenty of government and regulation to go around considering their non-existent economy. Shouldn't they be fat and filthy rich by now?



These developing nations seems to have plenty of government and regulation to go around considering their non-existent economy.

Which nations are you referring to, specifically?



> When you're old, it's easy to be an obedient minion.

Please explain why vote participation increases with age then?

I made this illustrative graph: http://i.imgur.com/Uhdub5G.png

edit: made the axes clearer.


The answer is simple: with age, welfare and benefits increase.




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