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To: alanrs who wrote (183357)	2/1/2022 3:48:15 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Recommended By SirWalterRalegh Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217592

Tradable Citizenship would work very well and easilly too. But people have trouble imagining things that have never been. It's only a couple of centuries that joint stock companies were invented. Vastly popular and fantastically successful now. It's only a couple of centuries ago that people were more than simply serfdom state chattels. Or simply slaves sold at auction. Now people have figured out that slavery and serfdom were not a good way to run a railroad. It's not even 2 centuries since Maoris not only had slaves, but they ate them too. Cut their tendons so they couldn't escape and that would keep them fresh for weeks ready for a later hangi [no refrigeration in those days]. Tradable Citizenship = crazy idea I know, but it's not much more difficult as a concept than getting rid of slavery, cannibalism and forming a joint stock company with individual owners who could buy, sell or gift to others, inherit, trade, borrow against. It's only 100 years since flying became doable. Now an A380 could carry 1000 people [Japanese size in bunks] 18,000 kilometres at 1000 km per hour 10 km high. 100 years ago there was only snail mail. Now 3D video with stereophonic sound can be sent from anywhere to anywhere in seconds with nearly zero cost. Political systems don't have to stay stuck in the 18th century. It's just imagination. Quite painless really and even fun. Mqurice