a protection racket might be better than government

i'm starting to think that a protection racket would work better than this government. a protection racket - maybe i should look up that phrase to see if it means what i think it means. the thing where you pay the gang to leave you alone, and if you don't pay them, they break into your house with guns and force you to give them the money.

i came to that conclusion because i was thinking that a government that does nothing is safer than a government that does something. when they even TRY to do anything at all, it causes more harmful consequences. we would all be better off just paying the salaries of the government agents, and then letting them sit in their offices watching movies. if we paid them to do nothing, paid them to just ignore us, then we'd have a better chance of taking care of ourselves.

that amounts to the same thing as the protection racket. pay them to leave us alone.

if they give us laws and regulations we have to follow, it's the same thing. do a particular thing, pay money to someone, waste time and effort obeying regulations, or else they'll break into your house and take money from you, take your belongings, or throw you in jail.

you could just skip the 'follow the laws and regulations' part. let people use their own judgment about what to do and how to do it. let them regulate themselves. just get paid to leave everybody alone. i think the government really would do less damage that way.