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This is similar to my own reservation with ACism (though I do want to be fully convinced). The issue is stability -- constructing larger contracts and more powerful corporations is to a point natural and profitable and good. But at some point some group is going to say "Our contract already include X% of the population -- let's just make it universal and everyone gets to vote on changes. Much easier that way."

Thinking about this some more, a transition from ACism to coersive government actually bears some resemblance to phase changes in statistical mechanics (imagine magnetic domains forming in a piece of iron below the Curie temp.) -- I'm wondering how far I can push the analogy and come up with useful quantities (analogs of temperature, etc) that could be used to evaluate how stable ACism might be in an actual society.