RE: Making the Agora Vanish | OSINT distributed haven (Intellagora)

At 12:36 PM 4/15/01 -0700, Tim May wrote:

There are many markets out there which do not rely on the official court system to enforce contracts for.

The diamond-trading jews of New York use reputation (ostracism from the community, centrally enforced by a council that rules their voluntary association) to handle 'arbitration'. Jews also use a non-governmental USDA to keep their food clean. FWIW