Strange7 comments on On saving the world - Less Wrong

101 Post author: So8res 30 January 2014 08:00PM

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Comment author: Dias 31 January 2014 11:30:27PM 4 points [-]

After all, government is how humans coordinate our resources toward our goals.

Government, and markets, and religion, and persuasion, and societies, and charities, and mailing lists, and kickstarter projects, and corporations...

Comment author: Strange7 09 February 2014 05:17:36AM -1 points [-]

Name one Kickstarter project that can afford to support a hundred riflemen or a single armored fighting vehicle "just in case we need them later," and one otherwise-credible government that can't.