At 10:31 AM 2/24/03 +0000, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote: ...

Now, I may have left my clue home, so feel free to explain *why* 100% capitalism (eg no state left, no other power) could never end up with power aggregation.

I don't think you can *ever* prove a claim like that, since you're dealing with humans, who can be only very imperfectly modeled. There's no system that couldn't possibly fall into some horrible state, whether that's tyranny or chaos or lemming-like rush to an unwinnable war or ostrich-like refusal to prepare for clearly oncoming war. Systems of human decision makers are driven by the decisions made by those humans, and sometimes, they're a bunch of idiots. More centralized decision-making has the ugly property that a smaller set of decision-makers have to be idiots to run the whole society into a ditch. On the other hand, more centralized decision-making makes larger projects possible sometimes, especially ones involving big, long wars.

-- Vincent Penquerc'h

--John Kelsey, kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com