Mark Grant says:
On Wed, 25 Jan 1995, Charles Bell wrote:
how do we ensure that those skyscrapers don't fall down on us? That the surgeon who is going to open me up knows something about surgery? That my money is at least somewhat safe in the bank?
With non-government reptutation and certification agencies.
I'll point out that insurance companies have typically taken on this role, being at risk in these instances. "Underwriters Laboratories" work with electrical safety is a real world example in which this actually happened. However, could we please take this discussion to someplace like talk.politics.libertarian? The mere fact that I agree with the point doesn't mean that I have an interest in seeing the only place for cypherpunk discussion taken over by discussion of the evils of government. .pm