Re: dbts: Privacy Fetishes, Perfect Competition, and the Foregone(fwd)

[Petro <petro@playboy.com>]

At 4:43 PM -0500 11/10/98, Albert P. Franco, II wrote:


I left the good ol' USA too. I now live in a European country with a strong
socialistic government and I actually find very little interference in my
day to day life. In fact there seems to be a much higher awareness that
each

	Crap. They take 60+ percent of your income in taxes, that means
that they take 60+ percent of your working day.

	They (at least france) throw up HUGE barriers to anyone wanting to
start a business, especially if they will need to hire workers. This not
only makes it difficult for you to start a business (which would never
happen since you've indicated you like someone else making decisions for
you) but also increases unemployment (prevents others from creating jobs
rather than just begging for them).


individual is responsible for his and her actions. At the very least there
aren't as many lawyers claiming everyone is a victim of something or
another (ie. too hot coffee, slippery floors, home owners that shot the
poor intruder who didn't get a warning first, etc.)


	Of course not, it's the states fault.


Ain't no where perfect, anarcho-whatever was done about 4000 years ago, I
generally prefer to look forward...

	So, the fact that it hasn't been tried in 4000 years means it will
never work?

	I guess it's a good thing the wright brothers didn't take that
attitude, nor Robert Goddard.
--
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jumble of economic irrationality and ignorance. It is a product: (a) of a
gross misinterpretation of history, and (b) of rather na�ve, and certainly
unrealistic, economic theories." Alan Greenspan, "Anti-trust"
http://www.ecosystems.net/mgering/antitrust.html

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