[42841] in Cypherpunks
Re: [political noise] Re: Crypto & Taxes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Nov 3 21:47:09 1995
To: s1113645@tesla.cc.uottawa.ca
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Nov 1995 20:04:00 EST."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 21:28:03 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
As much as I agree with you, this really doesn't belong in
Cypherpunks. This REALLY isn't a list about libertarian politics.
.pm
s1113645@tesla.cc.uottawa.ca writes:
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> On Fri, 3 Nov 1995 hallam@w3.org wrote:
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> > Why unfortunately? I happen to consider that our modern social ecconomy
> > is a high point of civilisation. It is certainly a tremendous achievement.
> > We can educate the entire population, provide them with health care,
> > prevent famine and provide protection against crime and agression by
> > other states. All in all rather a good deal.
>
> That wonderful state of bliss seems rather limited in certain parts of
> the world.
>
> Not that I want to get into a big political discussion, but David Friedman
> has a nice, calm and rational book called The Machinery of Freedom, 2nd ed,
> which argues anarchism/libertarianism from an economist'spoint of view.
> The argument is not cased in terms of ethics and morals but rather
> economic efficiency and utility. Slim, easy to read and cheap. He also
> has a good sense of humor. Unfortunately the book is currently on back order.
> I'm holding on to my library copy until they ship one to me.
>
> You can butt heads with him and Tim on the cyberia list (I don't remember
> the address but they have it at news://nntp.hks.net )
>
> I gather from the cyphernomicon that someone recently converted him to
> cryptoanarchy.
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