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Root crops resist state taxation better than grain because they can be harvested piecemeal and stored underground.

Drawn from what Steven Johnson said

Subjectgovernment
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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

What Steven Johnson actually said

  1. Steven Johnson Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host
    Even other domesticated foods like root crops and tubers proved remarkably resistant to the tax collector, because they grow underground and can safely be left in the soil for months, even years.

    Where this was said

    ↗The Legible Societyadjacentpossible.substack.com

    3 Apr 2026

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