That's a second order effect. Their real purpose is to protect their aristocracies from one another or enable theirs to crush another's. 


On Fri, Jul 20, 2018, 8:10 PM Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
On 07/20/2018 07:46 PM, juan wrote:

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>       Well at least one can laugh at the retarded 'progressives' who think that government protects them from monopolies. Then again, those retarded 'progressives' are pretty blind to governmnt failures for some reason...

Fundamentally, governments protect people from other governments ;)

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