At 7:57 PM -0500 11/10/98, Jim Choate wrote:
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Part what is attributed to me I wrote, some was written by Albert P. Franco, whose original message didn't get modified properly by Eudora. Sorry. I've changed his comments to ::
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:40:11 -0500 From: Petro <petro@playboy.com> Subject: Re: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone(fwd)
::I left the good ol' USA too. I now live in a European country with a strong ::socialistic government and I actually find very little interference in my ::day to day life. In fact there seems to be a much higher awareness that ::each
I find very little interference in my daily life as well (except when one of you anarcho-cooks starts dropping bombs and threatening people).
Crap. They take 60+ percent of your income in taxes, that means that they take 60+ percent of your working day. They take 40% of my income, or are you talking of France taking 60% of your income. Disagreement over the level or specific policies for spending it do not justify eliminating the system.
Specific levels maybe, but spending policies, yes it does.
They (at least france) throw up HUGE barriers to anyone wanting to start a business, especially if they will need to hire workers. This not only makes it difficult for you to start a business (which would never happen since you've indicated you like someone else making decisions for you) but also increases unemployment (prevents others from creating jobs rather than just begging for them).
And you find that a better place to live then the US?
Again, That was Franco, I live in the US, and wrote that part. :: individual is responsible for his and her actions. At the very least there :: aren't as many lawyers claiming everyone is a victim of something or :: another (ie. too hot coffee, slippery floors, home owners that shot the :: poor intruder who didn't get a warning first, etc.)
What is the percentage of lawyers in France to the total population?
:: Ain't no where perfect, anarcho-whatever was done about 4000 years ago, I :: generally prefer to look forward...
So, the fact that it hasn't been tried in 4000 years means it will never work?
I guess it's a good thing the wright brothers didn't take that attitude, nor Robert Goddard.
We tried anarchy, it's called cave men. As to Wright and Goddard, they had ample evidence in physics (that's been around what 4.5B years) to build their expectations on. In the field of politics and social system the only thing we have to go with is our imagination, patience, understanding, and past practice. 5k years or a little more.
All of those say anarcho-anything systems won't work.
Those haven't been tried in 5 or 6k years, things change. -- "To sum up: The entire structure of antitrust statutes in this country is a jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a product: (a) of a gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of rather naïve, and certainly unrealistic, economic theories." Alan Greenspan, "Anti-trust" http://www.ecosystems.net/mgering/antitrust.html Petro::E-Commerce Adminstrator::Playboy Ent. Inc.::petro@playboy.com