-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/09/2016 01:30 PM, jim bell wrote:
*From:* Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net>
Also, anarchy seems to work best when everyone is more-or-less equally powerful. Everyone has the same weapons, for example. In science fiction, anarchist societies typically depend on some new technology that eliminates states' power monopoly. Maybe it'll be the Singularity.
The pathway to the solution was described in 1995-95, by me:
"Assassination Politics".
A couple of years ago, Forbes reported that 400 billionaires owned 1/2 the capital assets in the U.S. In the face of this, I think AP may have a problem with scale: How many small investors does it take to redirect AP profiteers away from targets chosen by factions among the ruling class, beginning with anyone suspected of operating the AP infrastructure and/or promoting it effectively to a wide audience of participants? If an AP lottery is not "fair and honest" by allowing anyone to be targeted regardless of occupation or etc., how long until ones that do allow any human to be bet on appear, with inflated bounties on perceived enemies of the ruling class? Mind you, AP is a frightfully clever idea. :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXgbCjAAoJEECU6c5XzmuqGZoIAICNaiMWRFIzrIIANUs2YC+w XtdUCCMgv0SIWiV+Xs5n7bpuTh4pyPBPdwT0nH13AJaGph9PBGSIUbFgWObP9v+3 jSqG9c9g04kXPA2FkVImS5d8LqiPH0kwfRBfjTKT2Hw51C5yw3t9i7ZKjAfShi2R +fhEKStDfM+ED9XvakbPu5bmCEOXg8hMFWOX4LZUAL1J7x+cnR8xTXCiEhnzAxqg h0E4w8SsMf+bOhIHdbZcDHIbGyCrMAyUtvj/LQ/j+2ZZHIlXtsxbpIWvJWxl5VVA lfnJV2Yy7vguQ8KlMBcPKMzxJgqPmQIlpg7/0KKZh743f0LYINfATpTtIwijIkw= =QHtt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----