Techno power is two sided

• China has delved into techno-authoritarianism, where it uses technology to surveil virtually every aspect of people's lives, and then assigns them social-credit scores based on how good or bad the Communist Party finds them.

On the other side we can obtain privacy technology, made of the same stuff, which allows use to have private lives on line, unidentified y ant government entity, except by voluntary contract. Government is free to voluntary sell legality, inducing traders to sign their agreement, and many will and may government contracts are good.

But, in the end, it is an even trade, scofflaws and regulators get the same access, neither gains in the relative. The exception to this rule, we will, for some finite time, agree to build in tax dollar limits on digital bearer cash, strictly on psychological grounds and necessary to get over a Coasian hump.