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> But to me there is a structural problem with the relationship between money and government (in their current low-tech forms) in society. Can you expand on this? Your comment intrigued me.
The primary motivator for people is money. Government attempts to regulate all aspects of behavior, but it cannot effectively control or monitor the exchange of money. The most obvious symptoms of this are usually called corruption. It is less obvious (but still obvious to me) that corruption is just the tip of the iceberg. The problem is structural. Government cannot be effective because it is superceded or corrupte…
If the government had even more control over money, they could arbitrarily blacklist people from having access to currency. While this sounds like a good tool to use against criminals, recall that, in America at least, there exist things such as the no fly list [0], which impacts people's rights without due process.