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Re:“In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart” by riffraff on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @06:13PM (#18803009)
> The long run trend is very obviously toward a single government

Is it? I believe there are far more countries now than 30 years ago.

We seem to have some more powerful international organisations now than a century ago, but earlier than that we had world spanning empires, and Europe was less than 10 countries before WW1.

I want to believe that we're heading towards a star trek like unified post scarcity planet, but I'm unsure we're not just seeing a local trend.

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Re:“In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart” by AndrewKemendo on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @06:20PM (#18803041)
It's misleading actually because unincorporated territories or completely unmanaged or ungoverned groups could be counted in a "sultinate" and it would effectively mean nothing.

Much how King Arthur, Lord of the Britains was not known to the members of the anarcho-syndicalist commune.

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