dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone (fwd)

[Jim Choate]

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> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 18:29:20 -0500
> From: Robert Hettinga <rah at shipwright.com>
> Subject: RE: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone
>  (fwd)

> At 6:01 PM -0500 on 11/4/98, Jim Choate wrote, from the bowels of my killfile:
> 
> 
> > They're bound by economics and nothing else, not even the government cats.
> 
> Amen.

Which is why it's a *BAD* idea.

> A government is just another economic actor. A very large economic actor
> with lots of guns and a monopoly on force, but an economic actor
> nonetheless.

You need to look around, the government has NO monopoly on force.

> Reality is not optional.

Absolutely, that's why any free-market/anarchy is doomed to fail.


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