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That, I think, is the rule in business... Oligarchs want it, or else. Not that I'd know personally, but I watch intensely. That sounded stalkerish... Oh well. Sometimes I hear a one liner that sticks in my head forever - one such one liner was : "the CIA is the best business school in the world." Strikes true. Take over, one way or another. Not trying to point the finger at them in particular. I think a country either has a formalized mafia or they have some other country's mafia, in which case they're not a sovereign country. The only real difference between countries is how far along they are in stealing everything in the country. In the west, nobody owns anything - we're the new commies. That's because the oligarchs have stolen everything. When there's nothing left to steal, they steal lives. In some places you get outright genocides ; in the west, our genocide is the falling population, which is because most people can't afford to live. Hard genocide, soft genocide - its genocide either way. Democracy should have protected us from organized crime - instead it became the crime. Survival - or surviving to the degree of affording a family - depends on getting to a place where the mafia hasn't stolen the whole country yet.

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yeah, freedom doesn't exist without a game-resistant law system (eg jericho, middle ages iceland) and usually quite small populations, generally, only city states. and they tend to be quite wealthy compared to imperial holdings. if you give the devil rope, he will hang you. it's my sincere hope that the hypothesis about atlantis and the angels and all that is true, but if we are gonna have to weather the galactic reset zero field point, hopefully the people who find high ground or float to safety among them are people who understand how you set up a society that is strongly error correcting. a lot about the bitcoin protocol design achieves an adversarial, decentralized, error-resistant system, but it's not sufficient, IMO this document will explain a lot of why and what i think probably should be different: 📃.md