The proposal is that peer to peer networks should operate in a
progressive left wing manner - that money issue should be done after
style of president Camacho to stimulate the peer to peer economy
<http://blog.jim.com/economics/the-end-state-of-democracy.html>.
The counter argument is that progressivism and leftism in practice
requires guys with guns from the government to beat you up, which is not
going to be easy in a peer to peer network.
Whereupon the past history of leftism (150 million dead) and
progressivism (wars, economic collapse, and social collapse) becomes on
topic, but threatens to derail the list.
If we wish to avoid discussing that bloody history once again, or the
prospects for history repeating in an equally bloody fashion in the next
decade or two, let us stick to the economics of money issue, and avoid
pious moralizing about the politics and morality of money issue
If the horrors and crimes of the twentieth century are to be off topic,
as they should be for fear of derailing the list, the politics and
morality of money issue and market economics must also be off topic.
Market economics is on topic: Its sinfulness and political implications
have to be off topic. If anyone points to the fact that the market
does not guarantee that everyone be fed, then Ukraine famine, Hungry
Ghosts famine, and German hyperinflation are necessary and relevant replies.
So let no one mention that markets do not guarantee to feed everyone.
_______________________________________________
p2p-hackers mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
