Separation of Business and State

I am a big believer in the separation of business and state.

The legal system is a creature of the state. Business existed before there was ever “the state” so previous to the state, there was only business. As “government” and "the state” formed, it was the worst kind of business person who appealed to the state for intervention. Monopoly is the first and most obvious form of intervention. And today we have IP along these lines.

And anyone in business is familiar with the second rate businessperson who always “screams “I’ll sue” whenever their dreams are inconvenienced. And of course, when subsequently the complainer learns he had no basis for his complaint, he blames the lawyers.

The business man called in the lawyer. Businesspeople are the ones who convert business problems to legal problems. If you have no desire for legal recourse to a problem, if you are drawn in against your will, you can always go Pro Se.

Once the state is involved, the natural progression is to socialism, in its extremes what we see under either communism or fascism. In the United States, what we have is called fascism in the dictionary.

Much of the problems we experience in business, culture & society would be inhibited if we had a strict “separation of business and state” cultural ethic. Indeed. those you see thriving in business as self-employed pretty much act as though there is a separation of business and state. Certainly, like Jesus, they perform a miracle in obeying regulations and paying taxes, but it is doing business right that allows them to be in the graceful position of able to perform such miracles.

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