[P2P-F] autocracy as most efficient governance?

Wed Jul 13 18:09:01 CEST 2011

I think that what he is saying is that he is the ultimate ruler, ie an
autocracy.

2011/7/13 George Dafermos <G.N.Dafermos at tudelft.nl>

>  Hi Michel,
>
> there's a basic misunderstanding here. the passage conflates *autocracy*
> with *autarchy* (i understand that greek words can be confusing..). the
> author uses the former term to refer to a situation 'where players rule
> themselves'. That is, what he means to say is 'self-rule', self-government.
> that being the case, (s)he should have used the word autarchy instead; or
> even better: self-rule or self-management. in light of this correction, the
> subject line of your email should read: 'self-government as the most
> efficient governance?'
>
> x,
> g.
>
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> *Subject:* [P2P-F] autocracy as most efficient governance?
>
>  see
> http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/04/07/eve-online-audience-with-the-king-of-space/
>
> Autocracy is the most effective form of government in null sec [the
> enormous sections of space within Eve Online with no AI police, where
> players rule themselves]. Council systems don’t work very well. Goonswarm is
> very lucky in that we have one large corporation, Goonwaffe, which used to
> be Goonfleet, which is mostly Something Awful members and has over 2,000
> people. Since I’m the CEO of that corporation all the other ancillary
> corporations in the alliance are relatively powerless, and that works
> towards an autocracy. Council-based alliances typically have corporations of
> roughly the same size.
>
> (I actually agree with this, in case of warfare, even egalitarian tribes
> had warchiefs for the duration of hostilities; or does anyone want to
> challenge thi?)
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     Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis
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