We are all collaborators. It's the choice of collaboration that increases the reward of volunteering and self responsibility. Like if you are a governor worker, a military guy and even an executioner, you will wake up one day and realize your work is meaningful to the people but not to the government. Then you put down your sword for them and pick it up for you.

Better to do work for people who also feel the same.

Made me think of how so much of the Netherlands was literally under the ocean until some people realized it could be homesteaded because it wasn't locked into any feudal arrangement.