Re: Socialism

Terry Donaghe (tdonaghe@yahoo.com)
Sat, 12 Dec 1998 01:09:16 +0800 (SGT)

---Samael <Samael@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mark@unicorn.com <mark@unicorn.com>
> To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
> Date: 11 December 1998 16:16
> Subject: Re: Socialism
>
>
> Coercion is hard in a transhuman society.
>
> Seems possible, although I'd be interested in seeing why you think
this.
>
> >, and transhuman tech
> >is hard to build in a socialist society; the whole aim of socialism
is
> >to reduce the rate of change and create a static society.
>
>
> Wow! Now there's something I didn't know.
> Where exactly did you get this from?
>
> Samael
>
Duh... If there's no such thing as money or property (as you argue) then there's no point in doing anything. There's no incentive. If everything I earn actually belongs to society, then why earn anything? If I am cared for by government why better myself?

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Terry Donaghe: terry@donaghe.com
Individual, Anarcho-Capitalist, Environmentalist, Transhumanist, Mensan

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