Cool! A collectivist extropian!
Isn't that an oxymoron? Shouldn't
---Samael <Samael@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Donaghe <tdonaghe@yahoo.com>
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> >---Samael <Samael@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
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> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Terry Donaghe <tdonaghe@yahoo.com>
> >> To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
> >> Date: 07 December 1998 14:11
> >> Subject: Re: The Education Function
> >>
> >>
> >> >Remember, the free market ALWAYS provides better solutions to
> >problems
> >> >than the government.
> >>
> >>
> >> Except for those people too poor to get onto the circuit inthe
first
> >place.
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> >But remember, our "government" doesn't even help those people. The
> >true homeless - those that live on the street - usually don't qualify
> >for any federal help. The bureaucracies require a physical address.
>
> Maybe in your country. Over here, No Fixed Abode can be used to
start with
> until you get housing sorted out.
>
> >So, I don't see how the free market could do worse. Also, remember
> >that it is in the best interest of most businesses to make sure that
> >people have money to spend.
>
> Which is why, of course, so many businesses give free money to the
homeless.
> Oh, sorry, they don't.
> (gross generalisation, of course, some businessess do charitable
work. But
> they are in the vast minority)
>
> > The government apparently doesn't care since they steal our money.
>
> Sorry, I don't subscribe to the libertarian dogma that money belongs
to
> people (or that property really exists, come to that).
>
> Samael
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>
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