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> Good luck running a business in a place without police, laws, basic infrastructure like roads etc. Basically the Internet.
by hartator 7y ago
> Good luck running a business in a place without police, laws, basic infrastructure like roads etc.
Basically the Internet.
- chmod775 7y agoThe internet is infrastructure. So is a postal system that gets your wares to your customer. Or the banking systems and laws that make it possible for you to receive money via the internet in the first place. If some customer in country X doesn't pay you for your services, you fully expect the government of that country to have systems in place that allow you to go after what you're owed. But even darknet drug markets rely on a lot of infrastructure provided by countries/governments at the end of the day.
- oblio 7y agoSorry, but, LOL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA#Past_or_transitioned_projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA#Past_or_transitioned_pro... -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web The internet was built with public money and only extended with private money.