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RE: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone(fwd)
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: [email protected]>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'