probably in every great empire the citizens, members, workers have been encouraged to be productive: work, farm, fish, manufacture etc.
and so working and paying taxes go hand in hand. encourage consumption, houses, cars,vacations. and fruits of your labor.
and then there's taxes again. but the love of security does motivate a bunch of us worker humans.
once the incentive to work has been lost because we can survive without it,
then the system has fundamentally changed, and us with it.
