[105340] in Cypherpunks
Re: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone(fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Tue Nov 10 08:56:23 1998
From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 07:34:33 -0600 (CST)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
Forwarded message:
> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 01:23:34 -0500
> From: Michael Hohensee <mah248@nyu.edu>
> Subject: Re: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone(fwd)
> > I'm still waiting for one of you guys to explain in detail how it works on a
> > day to day basis...
>
> It works much the same as it does today, except that there isn't a
> parasitic state wasting resources on feeding a useless band of
> politicians, or pointing guns at people who don't obey its whims.
Cop-out. "It's the same but different" is spin-doctor bullshit.
Explain how the system works. Explain how the various systems operate, how
the costs are calculated, and how they're paid. I want to see the same level
of *specificity* that I and others have agreed to provide you in our
examples.
We want an answer not some glib off the shoulder quip.
[I'm deleting the rest of this since it doesn't answer any questions that
have been posed to the anarcho-whatever side]
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