Polystate Quotes

“Any time freedom is allowed it will be abused. This is not a flaw in freedom (else police states might be more desirable) but a flaw in humanity.”
― Zach Weiner, Polystate: A Thought Experiment in Distributed Government

“However, a well-developed sense of ethics and a well-developed stock portfolio are not always tightly correlated.”
― Zach Weiner, Polystate: A Thought Experiment in Distributed Government

“A natural monopoly is, in short, when a service or good is provided most efficiently by a single provider. Tullock’s claim is that a natural monopoly will (naturally) be run in an inefficient manner. If this is the case, government intervention may well be warranted. However, what if we consider the government of a geostate as having a natural monopoly over coercion?”
― Zach Weiner, Polystate: A Thought Experiment in Distributed Government