On 13 Sep 97 at 23:44, iang@systemics.com wrote:

The battle should remain on the field of personal rights, because the battle over economics cannot be won, right at this current juncture in time. I.e., Now.

Probably a sensible opinion. But what would be the effect of pulling in the other direction? Espcially if the population would be more personnally concerned with it? The way it is now, National Security is a scarecrow but the real thing is the govt corn to be protected...

As TCM will no doubt never tire of saying, the deployment of appropriate infrastructure is something that takes time. Until the deployment of all that juicy stuff is in place, nobody can provide a single transaction of your three-orders-of-magnitude-reality.

Only, to deploy any e-$ scheme would need an environment where govt would _tolerate_ crypto. But the way it is going, everything is set in place to trample on anybody's face that will use crypto with the "not-the-flavour-of-the-month-at-White-House" sauce such as e-$ programmers, etc. If the debate could be shifted-off, the legitimacy of the govt claimed goals could get strongly challenged. This is possible only if there is a cause that concerns citizens directly. Now, try telling me that taxation is the most popular of govt's measures... The fact that a majority voted for Politician A does not mean that a majority loves him...

Of course this raises the interesting question of why the establishment does not shift the battle themselves ...

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