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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>>>… When they are gone, there is a new 1%! When does your number come up, John? Is it sooner? Or is it later?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…It comes up after they run out of prison space - which they are already short on - so they can't do the cycle you postulate more than a few times, if even once. Most people would be confident enough that it would stop long before it got to them.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Prison space? Once that process starts of giving government arbitrary power, any government, the whole prison thing is unnecessary. All they need is a place to dump the ashes of those once-wealthy.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>France did it in the late 1700s. The Soviet Union went there in the early 1900s. Germany did it in the 1940s. China, 1960s. I am hoping the USA learned something from their experience: any government given arbitrary power will eventually devour its own. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If we give away our constitution, you and I won’t be the first ones in that furnace. But we will be there eventually.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>