• MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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    5 days ago

    It is also going to be a huge problem for petrostates. Oil and gas require a relativly small workforce and make a lot of money. So it is easy to set up a dictatorship financed with that rather then taxes, which means the government does not depend on the people. If you take that away revolutions become much more likely. No money to pay for welfare or military, police, secret service to oppress the people.