At 08:11 PM 9/17/96 -0700, Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote:
but I'm still a bit confused about those prices. what determines them, anyway? risk to the assassin? it seems that it ought to be as easy to snuff out one person as it would another. e.g. everybody walks alone out at night at different times, it seems.
Although government services to the rich and poor cost about the same, the quality is radically different. Thus the risk involved in killing a poor person is vastly less than the risk involved in killing a middle class person. This is most noticeable in education, where black children are kept in holding pens with leaky roofs, masquerading as schools, for a cost that would suffice to build classrooms with a hot tub in each classroom and a pentium on every desk, even if we burnt the classroom down with the equipment inside every year and and replaced it every year. On the other hand, food, clothing, and transport, being provided for money by the free market, tend to be roughly equal for rich and poor. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com