Re: The Education Function

Zenarchy (jr@shasta.com)
Mon, 7 Dec 1998 09:19:00 -0800

-----Original Message-----
From: Samael <Samael@dial.pipex.com>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com> Date: Monday, December 07, 1998 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: The Education Function

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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
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>>Remember, the free market ALWAYS provides better solutions to problems
>>than the government.
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>Except for those people too poor to get onto the circuit
inthe first place.
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>Samael

Government worsens the problem of people too poor to get onto the circuit in the first place by encouraging them to reproduce at taxpayer expense. People too poor to get onto the circuit in the first place have too much time on their hands, and consequently have too many kids, which amplifies the problem in the last place. The free market provides a better solution by discouraging the very poorest from having children.

If the free market did *not* always provide better solutions, it would not be necessary for governments to maintain military forces to threaten violence against any who disagree with government's "solutions" (which haven't solved anything in the whole sad history of the race, but which have produced monumental problems such as weapons of mass destruction). -zen