If the state has a right to claim the fruits of my labor, that implies that it really has an entitlement to my labor itself.

如果政府有权强占我的劳动果实，这就说明它确实有权强迫我劳动。

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In other words, it means taking the fruits of my labor.

换句话说，就是,强占劳动果实。

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I am at the point of believing," he says, "that my labor will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato," he says in a moment of sort of uncharacteristic despair, "will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato."

我就快相信，自己所做的这一切都将是无用功,就像柏拉图所建立的理想国一样,他曾异常绝望地这样说，就像柏拉图的理想国一样毫无意义“

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But if you want to reject it, you have to break in to this chain of reasoning which goes, taking my earnings is like taking my labor, but taking my labor is making me a slave.

但要想驳倒自由主义，你就得打破它的这个推理过程，强占我的收入，就是强迫劳动，强迫劳动，就是让我做奴隶。

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But if the state has the right to take my earning or the fruits of my labor, isn't that morally the same as according to the state the right to claim a portion of my labor?

但如果政府有权,强占我的收入或劳动果实，这在道义上不就等同于,政府有权,让我做部分义务劳动吗？

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