Your comments are reminiscent of Neil Stephensen's "Snowcrash" set in a post-apocalyptic world following a vast hyper-inflationary melt-down in which virtually all state functions become privatized--a good read.

Awesome read. Especially if you get the audio book version and listen to it.

Americans should be required at birth to have "Poor Impulse Control" tattooed on their foreheads, forward and reversed, so they can read it in the mirror every morning.

"Movies, Microcode, and Pizza Delivery"- America's future Economy. The only thing wrong with Stephenson's prediction is that the first two are already moving to India.