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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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