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Old 03-22-2006, 01:14 AM
Borodog Borodog is offline
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Default Re: AC: The Economics of Revolutions

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The existence of insurance companies that don't want to go out of business. Strangely enough, people would not voluntarily patronize companies that tried to coerce them into behaving ways they don't want to. Shocking, isn't it?

Yeah, that's why the people who start pyramid schemes are always bankrupt. Oh, wait, that's because the state can seize their assets.

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Purple monkey dishwasher.

Get back to me when you can explain the connection between pyramid schemes (like social security) and insurance companies coercing their customers into not BASE jumping.
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