What is the value of the State?

[zen at freedbms.net (Zenaan Harkness)]

On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 02:51:02PM -0300, Juan wrote:
> On Sat, 6 May 2017 02:32:47 -0400
> John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:
> > except for very token
> > gestures. 
> 
> 	I don't think that the tens of billions of dollars that go to
> 	special interests including of course the 'scientific' mafia
> 	are a token gesture.

Well except for the quanta of money, the "results" of attempts to
"stop global warming" are so token they are below our ability measure
- impressively miniscule results.