world with physical things and physical needs and physical governments that can physically take those things or physically protect them. So one of those things, the ledger, exists within a physical world and governments which have physical force have primacy over those assets. And the reason that we, the argument, and I understand that there are anarchic philosophies, anarchism is a philosophy of organization, I think anarchism, I think works at small scale. I don't know, I don't see how it could work at a large scale. It hasn't worked historically. But the reason that we empower governments and we give them the legitimacy to use force is in order to protect, among other things, life and property and liberty. So I don't believe that you can have a world, and this actually gets to a fundamental philosophical question, which is can you have a world that exists solely off of math, off of a cryptographic ledger and smart contract enforcement? And I don't think that you can, because that (40/97)
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