cryptoanarchy.wiki

Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!

1996-11-13 - Re: Black markets vs. cryptoanarchy

Header Data

From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: fabd40f21d53b21a9193531ac70d9a5cd304890d2f66b32ceba6e3bc0630e231
Message ID: <awecXD1w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
Reply To: <Pine.SUN.3.95L.961112224755.2462B-100000@bonjour.cc.columbia.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1996-11-13 19:14:41 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 11:14:41 -0800 (PST)

Raw message

From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 11:14:41 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Black markets vs. cryptoanarchy
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95L.961112224755.2462B-100000@bonjour.cc.columbia.edu>
Message-ID: <awecXD1w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


Jim Wise <jw250@columbia.edu> writes:

> On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
> 
> > My piece was written as a rant about the dangers of the proposed talk of
> > "privatizing food distribution points," about how this would result in a
> > system where only the rich could get access to nutritional food, and how
> > the poor would be made to suffer. And how this "caloric anarchy" would
> > result in vicious monopolies, price wars, and deviation from Recommended
> > Governmental Caloric Intake Rules.
> 
> Which it does...  FWIW, I tend to agree with your general point, but I
> moved from downtown Manhattan to Harlem recently, and was surprised to see
> how many foodstuffs cost _more_ up here, as well as the obvious fact that
> many are harder to get...  Junk food and cheap liquor are everywhere,
> though...

I spent a few years living in Columbia housing on 111th St and there are
plenty of good, cheap groceries around. If you choose to save on the rent
and to live, e.g., up by City College, then indeed there are fewer groceries
and they cost more. The clerks who work there also get paid much more than
the clerks midtown because they risk their lives.
And you spend more time commuting to Columbia.

---

Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

Thread