CantillonEffet on Nostr: "One perspective would be that governments simply have to change their patterns of ...

"One perspective would be that governments simply have to change their patterns of taxation over time, if indeed bottom-up open-source distributed privacy technology and open monetary/information networks become more widespread. [...]

The other perspective, generally from the viewpoint of the government, is that instead, all privacy has to be eliminated, then. Every transaction between every peer, globally, has to be monitorable so that it can be audited and taxed. [...]

Over the long run, I view the outcome, one way or the other, more as a matter of technology than politics. "

Powerful message!