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We’ve reached a day and age where technology plays one of, if not, *the* major roles in our lives, and it has helped us to develop systems of market interaction, communication, entertainment, etc. These advances in technology are all products of the ingenuity of the people who spawned them through learning and experience, through learning from mistakes and innovating, and also capitalizing on them. These are all products of independent and rational thought. Not through coercion or force and certainly not through some top-down process. It all emerged. The advances in technology that enable you people to create jobs, find references, make studies, play games, watch porn, talk in forums, do cyber-sex, send files for schoolwork or for your jobs, meet people, buy things, entertain yourself, take you from point A to point B, to see if you’re sick, to make sure you’re not sick, and so on are all the products of people who are intent on supplying for the demand for such needs (yes, watching porn is a need for some people..) and not the coercion of some assumed “higher power”.

Such technological marvels are found all around in the market, but they are rarely affordable to those who would have the most convenience from them. This is due to the state’s taxation that artificially raises the price of what would be cheap and useful apparatus. Additional money that goes to the state from the toil and labor of those who manufactured the products. Money that is inflationary. This is all due to the state’s constant desire to meddle in the affairs of the market. They also have such bad quality inspection, so manufacturers and dealers who lobby them make sure that they are at the least possible quality criteria to make sure they save money and resources. In a free market, things would be different, as the incentive of a huge consumer base would push manufacturers to make the utmost effort to better their products and make them cheaper, and thus benefiting them with profit, and benefiting consumers with better cars, computers, AC’s, fridges, home-stereo systems, etc. All the problems we have now with the availability, affordability, and quality of techno-gear and utilities are all the result of the nanny state that benefits only itself and the large companies who lobby it. It’s all just one vote. One ad. One politically spam-filled Yahoo! inbox. One shred of support to turn a company into a right hand man of the state, selling you highly taxed crap for your highly taxed income.

Taxation is one of the main mechanisms that feed the state, and there is nothing that isn’t taxed by the state from the time a product is being made to the time you buy it from a store. This is the reason why prices rise up so badly, it is not a natural process as you would always hear from state education camps and naive teachers. The manufacturers get taxed from buying the raw materials for making their products, their land that they will use as the place to make their products will be taxed, the expenses for transportation of the products onto stores is taxed, the product will be taxed when you buy it, and you pay it from your paycheck which has already been taxed. A vicious cycle of wasted money and resources that barely go onto government programs that are “for the people”, so when someone says that not enough people pay their taxes, that person is either a completely retarded statist idiot, or an obscurantist state employee or official (which is basically the same as the aforementioned).

Lobbying, taxation, force, inappropriate laws, propaganda, and all other state activity are what make sure that the advances we have in the market ultimately benefit it and its lobbyists. There is nothing that the government doesn’t touch, not just this, but everything. It is a threat, it is a violator, it is a homicidal system that needs to be removed in order for the long term to be of benefit to the consumer and the producer.