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You need peace, law enforcement, trust in others to lower stress and increase creativity, good teachers and education.

Someone growing up in a society is strongly an outcome of that society.



> You need peace, law enforcement, trust in others to lower stress and increase creativity, good teachers and education.

This is a great point.

The flip side is that if a government fails to deliver those, they have failed their side of the social contract. Then ideally, the citizens they've failed should be able to opt out..


What about a software company founded in Germany by someone who grew up in another country, and accordingly got their education elsewhere?

What if that company is a remote company which hires people all over the world, and none of those people benefited from the {education|peace|law enforcement|trust} in Germany?

I do agree with you, in principle, that a company is somewhat coupled to the country it was founded in. The exact nature of that coupling, however, is not that simple, I would say.

Reality is complicated, I suppose :)


Lets drop you into the mid Cretaceous period and see how far your education takes you.

Without the contributions of millions of others on a daily basis you’d have nothing.


In business, you pay for those contributions.

Milton Friedman describes how a pencil is made with the self-coordinated efforts of millions of people around the globe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tHtpac5ws


For those unaware, the original essay "I, Pencil" was written by Leonard Read:

https://fee.org/ebooks/i-pencil/


Dinosaurs don’t take credit cards




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