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

[Robert Hettinga]

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.

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.

Reality is not optional.

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
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