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Long term, you will either have government as we know it now, or an alternate currency, but not both. The monopoly on currency is closely related to the monopoly on force.

I generally think a lot of anarcho-capitalist theory to be obvious nonsense, but on that, they have a point.




I agree that governments will try but there are already plenty of countries where merchants will accept USD as well as their local currency.




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