It began with alcohol. When the state gained total market share, it profited from our addiction to booze.
Now the state wants to sell us drugs. Yeah, it will dictate potency, availability and price. The state might say individuals may grow enough for home consumption. But hold onto your seeds. The state will eventually forbid all entrepreneurism and competition.
Once the state decides how drunk and stoned we should be, it will enter on the third stage of enslavement of the masses. The state will outlaw private energy generation, and will require that all buy energy only from the State. The privileged few who sell energy will ensure that the general populace renders unto it all profits.
Thus the 1% will be fabulously rich, while folks like us will wallow in poverty and delirium. We will be subjugated by the élite.
We Are Competed For By The 1% Now
As the population ages, new formulae will be required or governments (overly large) will fail. Are failing, actually. Like global whatchmacallit - - it's aready here, human ownership. Good sound philisophy/prediction - description of what we live beneath. - allets -