Ophtalmos, you would think with Lonsdale, thiel, andreeson, etc on board in various ways that even if they step on a few toes, a phone call from one oligarch on one part of the planet to an oligarch on another could readily solve some issues? I must plug an old IBM colleague again, Peter Nolan. He assures that from patents, to unfair divorce courts, to welfare and social security systems that some western governments are not going to remain, and all their laws, socioeconomic systems will be toppled/changed soon.
All my history professors told me Rome fell when their nation could no longer squeeze anymore from the citizens to support the military.
