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1996-06-08 - Re: Anonymous stock trades.

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From: Asgaard <asgaard@sos.sll.se>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-06-08 05:01:10 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 13:01:10 +0800

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From: Asgaard <asgaard@sos.sll.se>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 13:01:10 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Anonymous stock trades.
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On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> Of course, what Dr. Phill Hallam-Baker, PhD, suggests is idiotic. As
> any free market economist would tell you, the way to stop a resource
> from being destroyed is not to pray that people won't buy it but to
> assure that someone has an ownership stake in the resource, thus
> assuring that their investment would be destroyed if the resource
> vanished.

Who is going to assure that someone has an ownership stake in the
Humpback Whales? The World Government? Is that entity supposed to
give the whales to some private whale-watcher's tourism enterprise?
I don't get it.

Who cares about a bunch of Norwegian (or Japaneese) fishermen?

Asgaard

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