Capitalism is created by the state solving a problem of cooperation between individuals: a prisoner's dilemma.
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Limiting reproduction requires the state to solve another problem of cooperation: a tragedy of the commons.
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If the state can create capitalism, it can also do what I proposed.
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Replying to @PoisonAero @Thoma_Valiant
"If the state can create capitalism ..." -- I'm smoking weed?
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Replying to @Outsideness @Thoma_Valiant
Yes. The state created capitalism with the rule of law. Duh. It isn't anarchy.
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You obviously don't understand how capitalism works. The state monopoly on violence creates the market.
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You think nature enforces property rights?
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Replying to @PoisonAero @Thoma_Valiant
Ultimately cryptography does, which means math. So "nature" in only a moderately expansive sense.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Thoma_Valiant
No, it is the ability of society to enforce laws that gives you property rights. Not cryptography.
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Cryptography can restrict the use of information, but not physical goods, for obvious reasons.
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Cryptography can restrict the behavior of machines. That certainly extends (increasingly) to the operation and circulation of physical goods
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