Essentially, you are going to have an economy. You can't stop it, and you don't want to. People are going to trade the goods and services that they can provide for goods and services that other people provide.
All you can do is define the rules for how those transactions take place. Without some set of rules, theft and extortion are the transactions of choice. And then, once you do choose a ruleset, it turns out that different rules incentivize different behaviors.
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Re: i'd like to build a staircase
Date: 2009-10-31 04:46 am (UTC)All you can do is define the rules for how those transactions take place. Without some set of rules, theft and extortion are the transactions of choice. And then, once you do choose a ruleset, it turns out that different rules incentivize different behaviors.
Oh, and cheating always happens.