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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by mindcrime on Friday March 03, 2017 @04:26PM (#13786775)
I would argue that when you give a subset of a population an institutionalized monopoly on the user of force, you're always going to get bad government eventually. That's why the State should never have the power to do anything that an individual could not justly do.

http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html

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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by frgtpsswrdlame on Friday March 03, 2017 @04:32PM (#13786847)
>I would argue that when you give a subset of a population an institutionalized monopoly on the user of force, you're always going to get bad government eventually.

Why?

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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by snappyTertle on Friday March 03, 2017 @05:47PM (#13787606)
The balance of power allows government officials to control those outside of government.
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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by frgtpsswrdlame on Friday March 03, 2017 @06:52PM (#13788045)
Those outside of government have control over government officials as well. Besides it doesn't really answer the question.
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Re:How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authoriti... by mindcrime on Saturday March 04, 2017 @07:31PM (#13793848)
Because those in control are inevitably going to become corrupt and use their power to advance their own personal agendas.
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