Re: [GNU/consensus] ZCash (lupa)

[carlo von lynX]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 08:17:27AM +0200, carlo von lynX wrote:
> Yes, and making a cash system that bypasses the tax system means
> that capitalism will be much harsher with zcash as it empowers the
> rich to hide their riches and become richer and richer while the
> poor just get a tool for exchanging digital value they don't have.

Maybe I can find more accessible words:

Markets are a natural part of human societies. Wherever people meet,
even when there is no police and no justice system in sight, they
will trade goods and establish social norms. I've seen it in the
outer edges of Indonesia, it's anarchy in the good sense of the word.

Well, some lucky people will come up with something to sell that
everybody else wants. Take Michele Ferrero who invented the Nutella
for example. The normal tendency in an unregulated market for such
a person is to get richer and richer.

I think no person on Earth should have more than a hundred times
what the poorest person has. My ethical vision however does not
become reality merely by talking about it. It has to be democratically 
decided and imposed by a government-like authority,* which you could say
is also a gesture of anarchism if an anarchist assembly decides to do
so, but that would mean that democracy is simply an evolution of anarchy,
which I presume it is.

So Michele deserves to be among the richest people on Earth, but we
need to take excessive amounts of money away from him and redistribute
to the poor that deserve a right to exist.

This kind of redistribution cannot be implemented if the cash system
is completely unaccountable to society.


*) See also the works of Nobel prize winner Elinor Ostrom.
   She found out that a Commons can only succeed if somebody
   ensures the rules are respected. A kind of (self-)government.