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I have not read Stealth of Nations (yet!), just put it on my list.
IMO the 15 years still reads like a grace period more than a victory: states initially ignoring System D was neglect; currently measuring it is a prelude and now talking about integrating it is the capture attempt: once it has a line in a spreadsheet it can have a tax ID, a KYC gate, a “consumer protection” raid. Institutions did not fall in love with débrouillardise: they noticed a pile that was not filing.
BTW, want to post the book in ~Library, or shall I (after I read it)? I can guarantee at leas one upvote ;) :))
yes! and it was back in 2011(!!!): the counter-economy was already "the second-largest economy in the world", and that was before there was a widespread crypto economy, privacy-preserving fungible Monero in particular!
What do you think we are doing right here, right now lol? ;)))
This thread is the lesson: no real name required, article in full so nobody has to hand a tracker their email for the paywall, comments tipped in Monero. This whole site is people choosing to talk, recommend, and pay without feeding the surveillance machine a customer profile!
You do not teach "interact privately" with a sermon: you put up a site and let the conversation be useful. The people who need the lesson are already arriving: they just think they came for a link ;)
Legendary Robert Neuwirth and his book Stealth of Nations.
It took 15y for institutions to move from ignoring System D to measuring and integrating it.