I’m a libertarian and I’m not opposed to a strong central government. I think government only works when it has the power to militarily dominate any competing force.

I just think government should be simple, to minimize the number of ways it can break down and end up becoming a tool of the powerful to oppress the weak.

We currently have a set of laws that’s like twenty feet long when you print it out, bind it, and put it on the shelves.

That’s a lot of complexity for malicious code to hide in. A lot of places for petty tyrants to set up shop and spend their life hurting little people under a government seal of authority.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

We currently have a set of laws that’s like twenty feet long when you print it out, bind it, and put it on the shelves.

Turns out, life is complex. It's either this or you end up having "rules for me but not for thee".

But to this point, what would you have your central government in charge of? I'm certainly for axing parts of the central gov and expanding others (For example, I'd nationalize healthcare and drug production and abolish ICE and the DEA). That is, I'd push for a government more concerned with taking care of citizens and less concerned with penalizing inconsequential things like not being born here.

The reason for the miles long laws is because when you don't have them, a capitalist society will work around them. A recent behind the bastards episode on the hawks nest tunnel ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-the-deadliest-workplace-disaster-in-u-s-history/id1373812661?i=1000632417312 ) is a perfect example of how these sorts of regulations get created and grow.