On 10/31/2015 05:44 PM, coderman wrote:
On 10/31/15, jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
... I also solved David Friedman's "Hard problem", see his book, "The Machinery of Freedom", the previously-assumed difficulty or impossibility of providing for the defense of a fully libertarian or anarchistic society.
i'd support AP with a basic income in place. otherwise, the few outliers could out leverage even the most widely prevalent crowd dispositions...
basic income + assassination politics == awesome future!**
[ **this conjecture remains to be proven... ]
Well, back in the day, I thought AP way cool. But some years later, more conscious of increasing concentration of wealth, I doubt that it would improve on status quo. Sure, maybe crowd-funding would take down some assholes. But serious assholes are seriously hard to kill. Also, it would provide another mechanism for governments to covertly kill their enemies. I'm reminded of Kim's Shit Slaughter Squad in Burroughs' _Place of Dead Roads_ about killing the assholes.
as an alternative vision, consider a world of humans sufficiently educated and opportunity rich as to view violence anathema to global maxima.
this, a much better solution to brute force.
Sounds better to me :) Everything is permitted, with love as the law, as Aleister Crowley was wont to say. Hard problem.
best regards,