[e-gold-list] RE: nature of freedom / wealth / technology

2001-06-09 Thread Samuel Mc Kee
The key word here is willing. If technology produces convenience at the expense of liberty, then the average joe is *willing* to sacrifice a little liberty for a little convenience. the two things are mutually exclusive and not related. Technology, ie human invention, never reduces

[e-gold-list] Re: nature of freedom / wealth / technology

2001-06-09 Thread Dale Pond
Ken Griffith wrote: The politicians and school systems have sold them on the idea that security = wealth. That is the lie. Actually, they have been taught to be afraid and that to acquire seeming security comes at specific costs. They've been further conditioned to believe that

[e-gold-list] Re: nature of freedom / wealth / technology

2001-06-08 Thread Craig Spencer
JP, (It could be that on other planets with other intelligent species, they did NOT discover this, ie, it could be for other intelligent species that socialism works. I beg to differ. It has nothing to with location (which planet) or with biolaogical identity (which species). Capitalism