Quote from: giantdragon on March 24, 2014, 10:11:53 PM

Quote from: anu on March 24, 2014, 05:31:55 PM

Then you better get ready for it. I agree with tinus42 that this inevitable. The elites have always loathed the plebs, in every system. Think what the much adored Spartans did to the Helots - they regularly culled their numbers to what was useful.

Question is, what will you do with your AK47 in a time of micro drones and localizers?

I hope to the time when tech unemployment will hit hardly 3D-printers will evolve enough to print complex metal structures (i.e. rifles, pistols, SAM missiles to destroy drones etc) and be affordable for the masses. Elites will think again before starting the war. Wink

War? What are you talking about? One night you go to bed, in the middle of the night a flybot injects something, next morning you wake up dead. Along with 300 Million fellow useless Americans.

There are still ways to prevent it. Stop waxing about BIG and other ways to give central government unlimited power. For you Americans: Vote for anything you want BUT Demopublicans. For Germans: Vote for anything BUT the CDUCSUSPDFDPGreen cartel. Brits: Vote UKIP. Dito for others. Vote for whoever is NOT entangled in the current power structure. You Americans had at least 2 close brushes with totalitarianism already: Lincoln and McCarthy. You did come around. You can do it again.

Incidentally the 3-D Printers are one of the potential ways to avoid being reduced to cattle for the majority of the population. Not because you may print guns, but because this is about de-centralizing manufacturing.

Weakening power centers by de-centralization is key. BIG and other means of centralization is leading to desaster. Hard to believe that one has to make the case for de-centralization and against centralization on a Bitcoin forum.