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hypfer • today at 7:40 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

The state. With the power of a state.

Regulation, taxes, law. Can also just take over their business. Oh and they have military.

The state can do literally anything it wants.

It just often shouldn't, because a lot of escalative actions have quite the collateral.

But you don't need any of those to steer here.