If the King's men decide to raze your village and rape your women there's not much you can do. I think the trick is to not draw too much attention to yourself so that they don't feel compelled to do so.
If the tax-man wants a cut from the apples I trade for some milk from my neighbor's cow I suppose he can try to get it, but if me and my neighbor are two hours away from the nearest town let alone the tax-man, I don't know how he'd know he needed to collect tax on that.
"Noticed" is different than "will prosecute". In some states literally every car on the highway is going minimum 10 mph over the posted speed limit, and the state is incapable of citing let alone prosecuting everyone who does it. But if you go too much faster than everyone else or speed in addition to doing something else you'll get nailed.
I expect that over time pretty much all laws will become like speeding is in those jurisdictions
I take it you don't have cameras set up on every street where you live? I recently visited some family in TN, saw a few towns like this where they remotely enforced speed limits. Take pictures, read numbers, mail out a fine.
People there told me it "worked". Authorized vehicles obviously exempt, so you still get fire truck joyrides.
I expect over time for all laws to be technologically enforced like this.
I've lived in a couple places which had red light cameras. What happened in those areas was people stopped running red lights (to an unsafe degree such that collisions at intersections with the cameras markedly increased) so revenue from tickets for running red lights dropped to zero. At which point the governments pulled the cameras out because their maintenance cost exceeded the revenue they were getting from them.
There are second and third-order effects from heavy-handed law enforcement that governments fail to consider and that they may not like.
If the King's men decide to raze your village and rape your women there's not much you can do. I think the trick is to not draw too much attention to yourself so that they don't feel compelled to do so.
If the tax-man wants a cut from the apples I trade for some milk from my neighbor's cow I suppose he can try to get it, but if me and my neighbor are two hours away from the nearest town let alone the tax-man, I don't know how he'd know he needed to collect tax on that.
If one man does it, and never accomplishes much with his life, The Man will not care about the man.
If a million do, however, it will be noticed.
"Noticed" is different than "will prosecute". In some states literally every car on the highway is going minimum 10 mph over the posted speed limit, and the state is incapable of citing let alone prosecuting everyone who does it. But if you go too much faster than everyone else or speed in addition to doing something else you'll get nailed.
I expect that over time pretty much all laws will become like speeding is in those jurisdictions
I take it you don't have cameras set up on every street where you live? I recently visited some family in TN, saw a few towns like this where they remotely enforced speed limits. Take pictures, read numbers, mail out a fine.
People there told me it "worked". Authorized vehicles obviously exempt, so you still get fire truck joyrides.
I expect over time for all laws to be technologically enforced like this.
I've lived in a couple places which had red light cameras. What happened in those areas was people stopped running red lights (to an unsafe degree such that collisions at intersections with the cameras markedly increased) so revenue from tickets for running red lights dropped to zero. At which point the governments pulled the cameras out because their maintenance cost exceeded the revenue they were getting from them.
There are second and third-order effects from heavy-handed law enforcement that governments fail to consider and that they may not like.