James Dale Davidson

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“The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.”

― James Dale Davidson

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“Incomes will become more unequal within jurisdictions and more equal between them.”

― James Dale Davidson

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“Governments will ultimately have little choice but to treat populations in territories they serve more like customers, and less in the easy that organized criminals treat the victims of a shakedown racket.”

― James Dale Davidson

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“Faster than all but a few now imagine, microprocessing will subvert and destroy the nation-state, creating new forms of social organization in the process.”

― James Dale Davidson

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“The cybereconomy, rather than China, could well be the greatest economic phenomenon of the next thirty years.”

― James Dale Davidson

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“When technology is mobile, and transactions occur in cyberspace, as they increasingly will do, governments will no longer be able to charge more for their services than they are worth to the people who pay for them.”

― James Dale Davidson

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“The basic causes of change are precisely those that are not subject to conscious control.”

― James Dale Davidson

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“Other things being equal, the more widely dispersed key technologies are, the more widely dispersed power will be, and the smaller the optimum scale of government.”

― James Dale Davidson

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“The idea of property emerged as an inevitable consequence of farming.”

― James Dale Davidson

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“Market forces, not political majorities, will compel societies to reconfigure themselves in ways that public opinion will neither comprehend nor welcome.”

― James Dale Davidson

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“The most important causes of change are not to be found in political manifestos or in the pronouncements of dead economists, but in the hidden factors that alter the boundaries where power is exercised. Often, subtle changes in climate, topography, microbes, and technology alter the logic of violence.”

― James Dale Davidson

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“The more apparent it is that a system is nearing an end, the more reluctant people will be to adhere to its laws.”

― James Dale Davidson

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“We live in the time of the computer, but our dreams are still spun on the loom.”

― James Dale Davidson

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“Every social order incorporates among its key taboos the notion that people living in it should not think about how it will end and what rules may prevail in the new system that takes its place.”

― James Dale Davidson

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“You cannot friend upon conventional information sources to give you an objective and timely warning about how the world is changing and why.”

― James Dale Davidson