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A government controlled by its customers sets tax rates not to optimize the amount the government can collect but rather to optimize the amount that the customers can retain.
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Every complex system in nature, of which the market economy is the most evident social manifestation, depends upon dispersed capabilities.
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You should acquire and begin using strong encryption immediately.
Just as the church attempted to ban printing at the twilight of the Middle Ages, so the United States and other aggressive governments bent on control will seek to bar effective encryption.
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Governments will ultimately have little choice but to treat populations in territories they serve more like customers, and less in the way that organized criminals treat the victims of a shakedown racket.
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The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.
—Aristotle
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Since it will be obvious that information technologies facilitate the escape of Sovereign Individuals from the power of the state, the reaction to the collapse of compulsion will also include a neo-Luddite attack on these new technologies and those who use them.
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As the bonds of the old system dissolve, the social ethos dissolves with it, creating an environment in which people in high places may combine public purposes with private criminal activity.
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From Russia to Japan to the United States, organized crime is a far more important factor in the operation of economies than economic textbooks would prepare you to believe.
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In the Information Age, a “job” will be a task to do, not a position you “have.”
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There is a striking analogy between the situation at the end of the fifteenth century,
when life had become thoroughly saturated by organized religion,
and that of today, when the world has become saturated with politics.
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“Good jobs" will be a thing of the past.
A "good job," as Princeton economist Orly Ashenfelter put it,
"is a job that pays more than you are worth.”
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Persistent make-believe" of the kind that disguised the fall of the Roman Empire is probably a typical feature of the decomposition of large political entities.
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Jobs" will increasingly become tasks or "piece work" rather than positions within an organization.
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The theme of this book is the new revolution of power which is liberating individuals at the expense of the twentieth-century nation-state.
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