Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company?

Re:Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company? by Natsu on Saturday November 27, 2021 @10:42PM (#29365998)

> Would you advocate for the privatization of the entire justice system?

What if that meant that people could fire their police department and replace it with a different one if they didn't like the way it operated?

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company? by aniforprez on Saturday November 27, 2021 @10:58PM (#29366056)

IS that in any way feasible or realistic? I don't ever see this even being possible considering the police department is not only going to have more resources, it is in their vested interest to stay in power and are only going to be more aggressive. This seems like a terrible idea

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company? by Natsu on Saturday November 27, 2021 @11:12PM (#29366103)

> IS that in any way feasible or realistic?

That would depend on exactly how things were set up, but we do it with politicians who have all the same bad incentives to keep power.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company? by anandrew on Sunday November 28, 2021 @11:08AM (#29369964)

And how would they collectively decide whether to fire the police or not? Maybe via.. voting?

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company? by Teever on Saturday November 27, 2021 @11:56PM (#29366281)

Do you have any examples of societies where this is possible through a privatization mechanism?

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company? by jokethrowaway on Sunday November 28, 2021 @06:45AM (#29368121)

Not modern ones, but medieval Iceland worked: https://mises.org/library/medieval-iceland-and-absence-gover...

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company? by tjalfi on Sunday November 28, 2021 @07:51PM (#29375030)

David Friedman's Legal Systems Very Different From Our Own has a chapter on the Icelandic legal system.

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