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Sure, it's convenient for now. You never know what turn society is going to take somewhere down the line. The government is in a much better position to dictate rules for all of your commerce. Whether that happens in a few years or decades from now is anybody's guess, but the temptation to excercise that power is all the more likely.


I'll let you know when New Zealand becomes a dictatorship, I guess.


It was pretty authoritarian over the course of the last two years!


No it wasn't, not sure why people keep choosing to believe that when Kiwis keep correcting them.


There is such a thing as "soft tyranny". It can be just as insidious and demoralizing to individual rights as a hard tyranny.




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