Ok, so they'll put you in exile at gun point. I'll feel better now... Sounds like a moral institution.
If you aren't prepared to support the system, why should you be allowed to benefit from it (ignoring for now the substantial benefits you have already derived) ?

If you are able to pay taxes and refuse, it is immoral for you to live in a society that depends on those taxes to function.

Why do you say that there won't be any services without government?
I didn't.

I said if you aren't going to pay taxes, then you shouldn't expect to live in a society that provides publicly-funded services.

it's far from surprising people "trust" their governments...over 50% of them (is the US) pay nothing into the system yet reap untold benefits.
The only people who "pay nothing into the system yet reap untold benefits" are corporations and the rich hiding in tax shelters.

No-one living on welfare is "reaping untold benefits". They're "reaping" survival.

Now try to not interact with a Government you do not agree with.
It's called emigration.

The best way to make a profit is by pleasing your fellow man [...]
That's why corporations have sued their customers, knowingly sold lethally dangerous products, knowingly polluted the environment and spent millions lobbying to minimise workers rights and minimise their salaries.

The best way to make a profit is to be a monopolist and/or rentier. Which is why all capitalists strive for those outcomes.

You can only fire services that you pay for, except for government. If you try to fire government by not paying them for their shitty services they'll come get you with guns and put you jail.
That's because they no longer have the option of exiling you to some other locale where you can't derive any benefit those services.

That's a good description of a government. A government owns all the [insert government service here] in the country.
Yes. You might say that's the whole point of publicly funded services.

Or in simpler terms, a tautology.

It's generally only true at the edges, though. There are really only a handful of publicly-funded services with no privatised option at all (eg: police).

Yea, "in America" (which I assume means in the US as a whole) it's a duopoly with a few niche third party competitors.
However, many other countries do not have this problem.

Which are quite comparable, especially in the context of the grocery store analogy.
No, they're not. How is buy groceries comparable to an election ?

You can still travel to other stores.
Not if they're not "within easy reach".

Just buy a lot more at a time. And it's worth noting that in most of the US, this situation just doesn't exist.
This whole discussion is about hypotheticals. What's your point ?

Still better than government. In America, the majority of political "products on the market" are provided by just two political parties.
Despite the belief of many, America does not have a monopoly on Government.

I have far more power to choose when I go to the grocery store than when I go to the polling booth.
Apples to oranges.

What do you do when one company owns all the grocery stores within easy reach of you ?

You can fire companies far easier - just stop dealing with them.
Hard to do when a proportional handful of them provide the vast majority of products on the market.

But the idea that GUIs are inherently superior to CLIs for all purposes has always seemed very odd to me.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone make the argument that GUIs are inherently superior.

I've seen plenty of UNIX Nerds argue all you need is a CLI, though. I expect I'll even see a few more as I scroll down this page.

and pay for cost over head TB to get the same speed of sata?
Yes. No-one using a Mac Pro for work purposes would even think twice about spending a hundred or two on a Thunderbolt to eSATA dock.

(Assuming they actually had any clients who used eSATA drives, of course, which is highly questionable to start with.)

You are missing DarkOx point people use external SATA disks so why pay a lot more for a TB dock when all you need is a cable and the sata ports that are part of the chipset.
Because people who think a thunderbolt dock is "a lot more" are not the demographic for a Mac Pro.

I understand light and thin quite well. That's why I have thin and light devices.

I don't understand why someone would choose to watch a video on a smaller screen when a larger one was available, all else being equal. I've watched people (who I know have 13" laptops with them) sit on planes holding an iPhone up (or bending over it on their lap) for hours watching a movie (often a movie that that was also available in the AVOD).

I simply don't get it. Or maybe I just have too much sympathy for my poor old back, neck and eyes.

They don't know what other companies are offering, who I've already interviewed with, whether I have any backup offers (or brothers-in-law in high places, or whatever), and any of 500 other potentially relevant factors.
Yes they do. Perhaps not specific data pertaining to you as an individual, but certainly aggregate data that is representative of you as an applicant or employee.

Your employer knows how much people working the same job as you earn. They know how much other employers are offering new employees. They know how much recruiters are baiting applicants with. They know how much they've offered other applications. They have access to a vast array of salary data that "salary surveys" accessible to normal people are but a tiny, heavily sanitised sliver of.

An employee wants to be paid a dollar less than too much for the employer. An employer wants to pay a dollar more than too little for the employee. The employer generally has access to data that gives them a pretty good idea what those numbers are. The employee generally does not.

As soon as the rest of the world rebuilt, well, we had the 1970s ...
And the subsequent spoils going almost entirely to the top few (being generous) percent of the population.

So if you were rich, then the disappearance of unions was great.

If you were anyone else, it was disastrous.