“Given a choice between patterns of subsistence that are relatively unfavorable to the cultivator but which yield a greater return in manpower or grain to the state and those patterns that benefit the cultivator but deprive the state, the ruler will choose the former every time. The ruler, then, maximizes the state-accessible product, if necessary, at the expense of the overall wealth of the realm and its subjects.” EconomicsTaxationFree MarketCentralizationCentral Planning Book:The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia Source: The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
“Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project," a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation.” CivilizationTaxationStateNomadNomadism Book:The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia Source: The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
