[89382] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why porn must be stopped at all costs, by Jodi Hoffman
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Spirito)
Mon Nov 3 22:36:12 1997
From: berezina@qed.net (Paul Spirito)
To: Lizard <lizard@dnai.com>
Cc: jlhoffm@ibm.net, fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 02:32:32 GMT
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971103181416.03321944@dnai.com>
Reply-To: berezina@qed.net (Paul Spirito)
Lizard wrote:
>But what we actually have is countless pluralities voting to rob each=20
>other. The game would work, except for entropy, in the form of=20
>transaction costs. With each theft from one group to the other and=20
>back again, some money is lost -- so the tension between groups=20
>increases as each demands a larger share of a smaller pie.
No -- you've got it *almost* right -- the negotiating pluralities, =
entropy
(as metaphor!), & all... but the pie is growing (at between 2% & 3% per
annum). So nearly everyone's content -- enough not to shoot each other,
anyway.
Paul
Her name was Julie; she wore Batman sneakers,
And she laughed when she sang,
"Money can't buy me love!"
North of Petaluma where the 1 meets the 101 --
Oh man, we took a lot of drugs...
