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If the government legalized drugs, prostitution and gambling, and started offering these services itself, perhaps there could be an (almost) tax-free welfare state. Certainly if you invest in automating society. Human workers are generally less reliable than machines, and cost more too. Furthermore, most jobs are a blunt violation of human dignity. Society will only become truly civilized when people no longer have to perform slave labor on a daily basis in order to make ends meet. And no, I don't think you need nanotech to achieve this; we have the tech, but apparently lack the will to use it.
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> From: Terry =
Donaghe <tdonaghe@yahoo.com>
>
> ---Leon Boey <blackman@pacific.net.sg> wrote:
> >
> > From what I have =
read on this list on this topic, (and compiled
> below) it
> =
> seems that the points brought up about education in this thread =
are:
> >
> > 1. Free education at a =
basic level.
> > 2. Teaching of logic and =
thinking skills
> > 3. Private schools =
providing a "free market" competitiveness
> =
between
> > schools
> > 4. Nothing =
of everyday application learnt in school.
> > 5. =
Poor people not getting an education
> > 6. =
Inadequate advancement of brighter students
> =
> 7. School placing too much emphasis on developing =
socialization
> skills
> > 8. Same age =
=3D> same education
> > 9. Education leads =
to raised output and higher GNP.
> >
> > A suggestion =
to compiling all of this into a workable and usable
> =
education
> > philosophy would be schools that are free at a =
primary level to
> everybody
> > regardless of social =
standing. This would hopefully 'help' the
> poorer people
> =
> to get a better life by being educated, rather than leave =
them
> absolutely no
> > chance to get out of their =
situation. It would help if this primary
> > education would be =
compulsory. This would definitely help in a
> country's
> =
> literacy rate.
> >
>
> !!!! When are =
you collectivists going to learn that there's no such
> thing as a =
"free" education??!!!??
>
> If by =
"free" education you mean one supported with tax money, then =
you
> are advocating a "free" education supported with =
violence - the
> coercion of taxation.
>
> It doesn't =
matter how benign your intentions are, any governmental
> fooling =
with prices at any level is detrimental to the economy as a
> =
whole. Any form of involuntary taxation is theft, and =
therefore
> immoral.
If the government legalized drugs, =
prostitution and gambling, and
started offering these services =
itself, perhaps there could be an
(almost) tax-free welfare state. =
Certainly if you invest in automating
society. Human workers are =
generally less reliable than machines,
and cost more too. =
Furthermore, most jobs are a blunt violation
of human dignity. =
Society will only become truly civilized when
people no longer have =
to perform slave labor on a daily basis in
order to make ends meet. =
And no, I don't think you need nanotech
to achieve this; we have the =
tech, but apparently lack the will to
use it.