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The issue is that thus far these organizations always take and maintain power through force. And pissed off serfs can’t beat them at the game of violence so we can’t resist meaningfully. Bitcoin is really the first way which large groups can resist the state meaningfully in my opinion but we still have to live under their coercive regimes and either comply or get fucked up. We can live relatively well still under their control so that’s what we choose to do.

I’m hopefully that tech gets so advanced via exponential progress that there is a revolution in defense where a small jurisdiction can somehow defend itself from massive nation states. If that happens, then we may see the government-mob model begin to decline precipitously.