essentially, it seems like the author of that book is expecting people to demonstrate a level of stockholm syndrome in regards to people's attitudes towards the government, which both enslaves it and feeds it, and is confused as to why people aren't overlooking the slavery in response to the food.

but, she's missing the basic point - that we wouldn't need to rely on the state if it wouldn't force us to, by upholding these systems of market economics that force you to work or die trying.

if there was somewhere where people could go to escape the coercion of state-controlled capitalism, a large percentage of the people that currently rely on the state to exist would jump at the chance, and no doubt live quite happily without it.

i know i would, that's for sure.

but, so long as the government puts all of these rules in place forcing me to waste all of my time generating surplus value for somebody else, and offers me this pittance as the only way to avoid the slavery, then i'm going to end up reliant on it.

but, i'm not going to be happy about it, though.

i'm not going to love my oppressor.