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And, absent government regulation, market participants with the influence and wealth required will provide their own.



Basically government is the Biggest Company with a strong-arm division for enforcement of EULA.


There's already a word for a company with a strong-arm division: gang. The government is the biggest gang -- claiming and enforcing a monopoly of violence in a particular geographic area is the defining feature of a government. If the Sinaloa cartel becomes more powerful than the Mexican government, it will become the Mexican government. It effectively already is in some municipalities: https://www.npr.org/2014/02/24/282123622/ruthless-mexican-dr...

> Because of Guzman, she says, everything is under control — people don't steal, kidnap or extort here. And the partiers say he helped the poor, paved roads, gave people jobs — the list of good deeds goes on.




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