Occasionally using stopgap measures could be acceptable, but it couldn't be the constant approach. Continuous transfer of benefits would only create a colossal and sluggish Leviathan, laying the seeds of trouble for the future. Moreover, while maintaining secrecy was a means to maintain technological advantage, real superiority had never been sustained solely by keeping things under wraps.5

Those might not be pleasant words, but they were all lessons from history.0

As the makers of rules, they needed to ensure the rules were as perfect as possible, minimizing the space for rent-seeking and safeguarding the personal safety of those players bringing technology to the collective. They also had to guard against a small number of ill-intentioned individuals who might harm the interests and image of everyone else and prevent certain people from using their power, position, and fallacious reasoning to unjustly acquire from others their treasures to satisfy personal desires. Especially from those seeking to transfer...2