From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 08:00:21 +0800
To: Jim Choate <cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: RE: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone(fwd)
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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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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... 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'