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You are overlooking a simple fact: Rich dont want to pay taxes.

You will always have problems when taking from the rich. 800 years ago It was barron rebellion (Magna Carta). Now its army of lawyers and gutted IRS. IMO War between taxman and rich is not entirely off table in future.


> IMO War between taxman and rich is not entirely off table in future.

Except I fear being labeled "rich" as someone in the top 1% globally but making 85k a year in the US. If you want a Russian Revolution, where the farmers were the "rich", that's how you get a Russian Revolution.


Definitely taking "war" to be literal, so these were the thoughts I had.


Call it DNSSEC or whatever, DNS needs more crypto. At present security of DNS rely on manual intervention, 2FA, "multi-perspective DNS lookups" and other rituals. That does not scale to 250M domains. Expect more hijacks until then.


DNSSEC+DANE replaces registrars. The entity would push signed request directly to tld.


Or who would lose from DNSSEC getting adopted ? CAs.

This is a fight for cert revenue: CAs vs ICANN.


Its not like Corporations can pay someone else, say US or China, to protect their assets and people. US totally wont fk EUs shit up for few hundreds of billions. No sir, countries can seize and kidnap without consequences, because muh sovereignty.


> No sir, countries can seize and kidnap without consequences, because muh sovereignty.

The Jamal Khashoggi tragedy is a very recent example that this has been the sentiment for some time.


Case in point: 2018 Federal taxes centralized $3.4T in the hands of 300 people.


Which gov gets the money and why ?


> Alternatively, they introduce an involatile shared fiction into the public conscious, that justifies their position

Like democracy=good, populism=bad ?


How does a democracy (or any governance system backed by public will) survive if there is a 50/50 split in public will ?


If that split is over something with no middle ground, that every person considers more important than everything else put together (including survival of the democracy), then it quite simply doesn't.

Otherwise, if it's to survive, it does so by compromise, tradeoffs, bargaining, and leaving many people at least a little unhappy but not enough people unhappy enough to dismantle the system.


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