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A comment on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin. Parent comment

Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by dqpb on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @01:11PM (#16215755)
I feel like you could say the exact same thing about democracy
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Re:Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Black Swan, on Bitcoin by vec on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @01:48PM (#16216189)
You can!

Also relevant, there are no functioning democracies in the world today. There are a bunch of republics and parliaments and representative democracies and such, but without exception they empower some relatively small central institution to make broad, sweeping decisions on behalf of the nation.

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