Sublime

However, these systems have an unfortunate tendency to concentrate power often excessively,

Money balances are private property but the institution of money is a common pool resource, in arguably exactly the same way that a stock of fish might be a common pool resource, even though fish fished by fishermen have clearly become private property.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

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This relatively benign (and purely fictional) example shows two things: first, it illustrates how stealthily descriptive regularities can become normative. Second, it illustrates that this normativity can go undetected until it’s breached, at which point the question of accountability forces us to make a decision about our commitment or lack thereo

The action of authority is indeed thus rendered less irresistible and less perilous, but it is not totally suppressed.