L&J: Libertarians

jim bell jimbell at pacifier.com
Sun Jun 23 23:04:33 PDT 1996


At 05:35 PM 6/23/96 -0700, Franklin Wayne Poley wrote:
>On Sun, 23 Jun 1996, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:

>> On 22 Jun 96 at 18:56, jim bell wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> > In practice, I think we'll discover we don't NEED politicians at
>> > all!  
>> 
>> I was having a discussion with a retired physics dept director the
>> other day.  He never heard of AP and we did not discuss it.  But we
>> discussed the Net a lot.  And he made a very fundamental remark.  He
>> said someting along thoses lines (not an exact quote but one that sums
>> it up in essence) :
>> 
>> "It is amazing how the Net is.  It is a total anarchy and yet, it
>> seems to work *perfectly* well without any central decision making
>> authority.  Actually, no central authority could ever make it happens
>> better than this actual anarchy led by self-interest on the part of
>> each individuals each owning a tiny piece of the network."
>> 
>> It make me think about how essential the govt is, and especially in
>> the field of economy...
>> 
>I think we need public administrators (not politicians) who are hired by 
>the people for the people to do specific jobs, like looking after roads, 
>public buildings etc. and the public administrators who don't do their 
>jobs well are fired (not assassinated) like any other employee.... FWP.


Privatization will occur.  People will, indeed, be hired to do the tasks you describe.
Jim Bell
jimbell at pacifier.com






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