[89385] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why porn must be stopped at all costs, by Jodi Hoffman
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TruthMonger)
Mon Nov 3 23:21:54 1997
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 21:17:28 -0600
From: TruthMonger <tm@dev.null>
To: Paul Spirito <berezina@qed.net>
CC: Lizard <lizard@dnai.com>, jlhoffm@ibm.net, fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu,
cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: TruthMonger <tm@dev.null>
Paul Spirito wrote:
> Lizard wrote:
> >But what we actually have is countless pluralities voting to rob each
> >other. The game would work, except for entropy, in the form of
> >transaction costs. With each theft from one group to the other and
> >back again, some money is lost -- so the tension between groups
> >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.
Close, but no cigar...
Actually, life is a pyramid scheme, people exist to provide fodder for
MLM marketing ventures, and I have 'dibs' on the last living tree.
TruthMonger
