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This reminds me of an old skit, I think from Monty Python. Where a bunch of people in ancient rome are pissed off. "What has Rome ever done for us?!". "Expect

• notch656a 4y ago
  • vkou 4y ago
    Surely you realize that if the power vacuum isn't filled by a democratic or mostly democratic or even somewhat democratic government, it will be happily met by a despot or a warlord? The steady state of parts of the globe that don't have governments is 'government, but by cartels or warlords or revolutionary people's liberation armies'. Which have all the powers of governments, without any of the self-constraints, legal processes, protected abilities for petition or redress, or mechanisms for peaceful transfer of power.
    • notch656a 4y ago
      No I don't realize that.
  • rurp 4y ago
    Large scale infrastructure? Yeah that's pretty much always built by governments. This has held true for millenia, over hundreds of different societies. But yeah, just a fluke I'm sure. Thank God crypto is here to knock some common sense into the world.
    • notch656a 4y ago
      Women in a high elected office? Up until the 1920s men were pretty much always governors in the United States. That held true for hundreds of years, over hundreds of different elections. But yeah, just a fluke I'm sure. Thank god women are here to knock some common sense into the world. Transport on land? Yeah that's pretty much always done by horse. This has held true for millenia, over hundreds of different societies. But yeah, just a fluke I'm sure. Thank God mechanized vehicles are here to knock some sense into the world. >Yeah that's pretty much always built by governments. Yes definitely, that's why I can never find privately refined and delivered gasoline, have goods shipped internationally except through a nationalized shipping company, and can't find a private company to deliver my last-mile internet or cell-phone service.
      • yunohn 4y ago
        And crypto solves this… how?
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