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Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe customership is enough of a rock to
build a platform of sustainable industry upon. It’s not like entre-
preneurs in Dubai have a lot of recourse if they get on the wrong
side of the Emir; or like Singaporeans get to appeal the decisions
of President Nathan, and there’s plenty of industry there.
And hell, maybe bureaucracies have hidden reserves of fun
that have been lurking there, waiting for the chance to bust out
and surprise us all.
I sure hope so. These online worlds are endlessly diverting
places. It’d be a shame if it turned out that cyberspace was a dic-
tatorship — benevolent or otherwise.
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