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    Jake Hamby (jhamby@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 15:00:05 JSTJake HambyJake Hamby
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    It's bizarre, this belief that academics and government bureaucrats are living large on "our tax dollars" and spending money wildly inappropriately, because they excuse the most extreme inequality and the hoarding of wealth by individuals accountable to no one. Completely hypocritical.

    The most extreme example of that belief that I know is the guy who invented "assassination markets" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market) because he was so violently opposed to taxation that he wanted to murder tax agents.

    In conversationabout 17 hours ago from chaos.socialpermalink

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      Assassination market
      An assassination market is a prediction market where any party can place a bet (using anonymous electronic money and pseudonymous remailers) on the date of death of a given individual. This incentivises assassination of the individual, as parties with advanced knowledge of an assassination plot can profit by betting accurately on the date of the death. Because the payoff is for accurately picking the date rather than performing the assassination, it is substantially more difficult to assign criminal liability. History Early uses of the terms "assassination market" and "market for assassinations" can be found (in both positive and negative lights) in 1994's "The Cyphernomicon" by Timothy C. May, a cypherpunk. The concept and its potential effects are also referred to as assassination politics, a term popularized by Jim Bell in his 1995–96 essay of the same name. Early in part 1, Jim Bell describes the idea as: The organization set up to manage such a system could, presumably, make up a list of people who had seriously violated the NAP (Non-aggression Principle), but who would...
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