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h4890 on Nostr: arrests etc. and that is the eventual downfall of authoritarian states. If they ...

arrests etc. and that is the eventual downfall of authoritarian states. If they cannot instill fear, so that people self-police, you would eventually needs one half of the population to monitor the other half, and then society basically collapses due to the enormously infficient way it is structured, since 50% of it does not produce value. That might set off, in the long run, starvation and deprivation, which could lead to revolutions.

That is why the government always wants to