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12: Vitalik Buterin - The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine

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Is There a Zone of Failure Within Economics?

There's long been this kind of seit geist that private goods, like things that i have, and if i give it to you, i don't have it, and you have it, are the normr. But really, public goods are s aren't important, right? Like, if we didn't have public goods, then we'd be trading sticks and anti bar pelts, and we'd basically still be cave men. Well, armies are interesting, cause theyare kind of to us. I in a medium scale context, the're a public good, and in a large scale context, there a public bad. Cause if everyone's armies were forced to be cut down

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