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It was not my intent to dismiss anything, but derefr didn't address these issues. I'm glad that someone has spent time thinking about this stuff, but no possible solutions were mentioned.

I also agree that a government isn't a simple cure, but a government can definitely enforce things better than a free market. As a hyperbolic example, if I use slave labor to cook meth to sell on Ideal Silk Road 2.0, my worst case scenario is losing my business - with a government, my worst case scenario is fines and decades in prison.



> a government can definitely enforce things better than a free market.

It might be true that government can more effectively enforce the rules which is chooses to enforce, although I might even argue that. It is not definitely true that government will more effectively enforce the rules which you (or society) believes should be enforced.




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