[105041] in Cypherpunks
RE: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Wed Nov 4 19:10:23 1998
In-Reply-To: <199811042301.RAA09484@einstein.ssz.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 18:29:20 -0500
To: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>,
cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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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Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
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"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
