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Yeah but the world is not the USA. Some states DO have the monopoly of violence. E.g.: if you try to kill me in Spanish with a knife and I shoot you, I'll go to
by kaoD 13y ago
Yeah but the world is not the USA. Some states DO have the monopoly of violence. E.g.: if you try to kill me in Spanish with a knife and I shoot you, I'll go to jail.
- gyardley 13y agoSince we're talking about Google and the American government here, I thought the context of the conversation was understood.
- kaoD 13y agoSorry, I was editing and just addressing that :( It's a bad habit of mine. I moved the edit here. Okay, I know that he specifically refers to the US (he mentioned Gitmo) but remember that even then the state is the one who lets you exercise violence. The monopoly's just lending some of its power to make you shut up and stop whining so he can keep minding his (evil) business. Also: Windows had a monopoly even when Linux existed. Monopolies don't always have 100% of the market share, but they're still a monopoly de facto and will fight hard to achieve the full monopoly.