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"I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back."

In a real market utopia, there would've been surge pricing on the gun.

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It's also visibly dated.

Today, the gun would just automatically burn a token on the BulletCoin chain whenever fired, after uploading the current GPS location, barrel cam footage and gyro data to the Smith & Wesson IoFA cloud for analysis and product development.

You can also earn prizes and discounts by firing the gun inside the designated District of the Day!

Who still has quarters?

NFTs commemorating assassinations of important targets available at the gift shop after conflicts.

With and Smesson naturally would also use the gun images to identify people injured and killed by their bullets, and then sell that data on to lawyers, opiate dealing pharmaceutical companies and doctors, prosthesis dealers or funeral companies, etc.

Don’t shoot the bullets! HODL the bullets. Greshams law tells us that the harder munitions will push out the weaker munitions.

Surge pricing on arms fire. Obviously it couldn't work, but I can think of worse ideas. A conflict diffused because the combatants are about to become insolvent on the next shot!

Chris Rock on "Bullet Control". It's a classic.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98949-you-don-t-need-no-gun...

Fixed Price War, Charles Sheffield.

Available at https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781618240644/9781618240644___...

> A conflict diffused because the combatants are about to become insolvent on the next shot!

The Free Market(TM) solves yet another problem that was previously considered intractable

Huh, I bet the futures market for arms sales is wild.

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