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"I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back." In a real market utopia, there would've been surge pricing on the gun.

xg15 4y ago
It's also visibly dated. Today, the gun would just automatically burn a token on the BulletCoin chain whenever fired, after uploading the current GPS location, barrel cam footage and gyro data to the Smith & Wesson IoFA cloud for analysis and product development. You can also earn prizes and discounts by firing the gun inside the designated District of the Day! Who still has quarters?
- mod 4y ago
  NFTs commemorating assassinations of important targets available at the gift shop after conflicts.
- throwawaylinux 4y ago
  With and Smesson naturally would also use the gun images to identify people injured and killed by their bullets, and then sell that data on to lawyers, opiate dealing pharmaceutical companies and doctors, prosthesis dealers or funeral companies, etc.
- _alex_ 4y ago
  Don’t shoot the bullets! HODL the bullets. Greshams law tells us that the harder munitions will push out the weaker munitions.
Tao3300 4y ago
Surge pricing on arms fire. Obviously it couldn't work, but I can think of worse ideas. A conflict diffused because the combatants are about to become insolvent on the next shot!
- monocasa 4y ago
  Huh, I bet the futures market for arms sales is wild.
- sangnoir 4y ago
  > A conflict diffused because the combatants are about to become insolvent on the next shot! The Free Market(TM) solves yet another problem that was previously considered intractable
- dsr_ 4y ago
  Fixed Price War, Charles Sheffield. Available at https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781618240644/9781618240644___3.htm https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781618240644/9781618240644___...
- triceratops 4y ago
  Chris Rock on "Bullet Control". It's a classic. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98949-you-don-t-need-no-gun-control-you-know-what-you https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98949-you-don-t-need-no-gun...

xg15 4y ago

It's also visibly dated. Today, the gun would just automatically burn a token on the BulletCoin chain whenever fired, after uploading the current GPS location, barrel cam footage and gyro data to the Smith & Wesson IoFA cloud for analysis and product development. You can also earn prizes and discounts by firing the gun inside the designated District of the Day! Who still has quarters?

mod 4y ago
NFTs commemorating assassinations of important targets available at the gift shop after conflicts.
throwawaylinux 4y ago
With and Smesson naturally would also use the gun images to identify people injured and killed by their bullets, and then sell that data on to lawyers, opiate dealing pharmaceutical companies and doctors, prosthesis dealers or funeral companies, etc.
_alex_ 4y ago
Don’t shoot the bullets! HODL the bullets. Greshams law tells us that the harder munitions will push out the weaker munitions.

Tao3300 4y ago

Surge pricing on arms fire. Obviously it couldn't work, but I can think of worse ideas. A conflict diffused because the combatants are about to become insolvent on the next shot!

monocasa 4y ago
Huh, I bet the futures market for arms sales is wild.
sangnoir 4y ago
> A conflict diffused because the combatants are about to become insolvent on the next shot! The Free Market(TM) solves yet another problem that was previously considered intractable
dsr_ 4y ago
Fixed Price War, Charles Sheffield. Available at https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781618240644/9781618240644___3.htm https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781618240644/9781618240644___...
triceratops 4y ago
Chris Rock on "Bullet Control". It's a classic. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98949-you-don-t-need-no-gun-control-you-know-what-you https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98949-you-don-t-need-no-gun...