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Re:An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Serie... by wu-ikkyu on Friday July 07, 2017 @11:47AM (#14719308)
>However, the ancap vision of no government and everything done by "voluntary" contract has no meaningful basis in reality at this point

What about tribal societies?

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Re:An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Serie... by dwaltrip on Friday July 07, 2017 @09:34PM (#14723545)
I'm talking about larger groups of humans. Things are very different when you have only a few hundred humans or less. Dunbar's number[1] is an important factor here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

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Re:An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Serie... by wu-ikkyu on Sunday July 09, 2017 @06:03PM (#14731965)
Don't most people only have real social relationships with a few hundred people or less?
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Re:An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Serie... by dwaltrip on Sunday July 09, 2017 @10:47PM (#14733053)
Of course, but I'm not sure what that has to do with governance structures of societies.
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