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Re:Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $5... by sobkas on Monday December 04, 2023 @12:05PM (#38519839)
> Without laws, you have anarchy. Laws create the institutions necessary to have an economy capable of creating wealth.

Without laws you don't have anarchy, you just have rule of strongest. Anarchy can have laws but no authority that enforces them.

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Re:Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $5... by seanw444 on Monday December 04, 2023 @01:59PM (#38521481)
If we moved into a world without government and laws, it'd be replaced by a sort of modernized feudalism. Not anarchy.
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