Re: Fear of Letting People Get Things They Want

From: Jason Joel Thompson (jasonjthompson@home.com)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 15:40:35 MDT


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Hanson" <rhanson@gmu.edu>

> Actually the sad fact is that few legal systems in the world would
> allow someone to keep most of $100 trillion given to them. Far
> more likely it would get stolen from them in some way that was
> sanctioned by the powers that be. Even then it might be a net
> benefit to humanity.

You think that arbitrarily adding 100 trillion bucks into the world economy
might be a net benefit to humanity?? If that's true, then maybe we should
just start printing a lot more of the stuff.

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