Re: Tyranny in AC land
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I'm not entirely sure why, but AC'er often claim that there is nonagression in AC land. But what's to stop one person from hiring the strongest army and enslaving the rest of the people?
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The army of everyone else who collectively have a lot more money than he does.
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Reading your post in the other thread was interesting and has bearing on this topic as well. But let's just say--while we're always speaking in hypotheticals--someone amasses 51% of the known wealth. What stops him now?
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Well I'd say that everyone is pretty [penetrated] in that case. I see that as a pathologically unlikely condition though. Frankly, any society where someone has 51%+ of the wealth is totally doomed. The only real world example I can think of is Kim Jong Il.
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