Ernest Schaal <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:
>> Ernest Schaal <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:
>>> in article cb08lr$4i4$3@news.Stanford.EDU, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net at
>>> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote on 6/19/04 11:33 AM:

>> Uh, the current group of rich would be hard-pressed to hire a
>> paramilitary unless they could PAY them; with no banking system, etc.,
>> how would they pay them? Microsoft stock?

> No, if there is not money system, they would pay in bartered goods. Look at
> what happens in areas where there have been such breakdowns. The temporary

Yes, the rich get looted quickly, and/or killed, at least, world-wide.

Not a win-win for our Mr Gates.

Mike