Re: [freenet-chat] Remuneration for artists via Freenet...etc.

[Travis Bemann]

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:25:54AM -0400, Mark J. Roberts wrote:
> On Mon, 7 May 2001, Travis Bemann wrote:
> 
> > Why do we need secure, anonymous digital currency?!  Why do we need
> > currency at all?!
> 
> Because efficient trade cannot exist without currency. You are the only
> person I've ever met who thinks it's just fine to make everyone else live
> according to your whims.

Geez.  No, I am not the only person who subscribes to the view that
there should be no currency.  Most anarchists (except for
individualist anarchists) share this view.  You don't need a market
system for things to run well, Mark.

> > Look - what we need to do is to destroy the entire capitalist system,
> > not to just copy copyrighted media and pay musicians anonymously.
> 
> How can you maintain equality in a system where goods and services are
> freely given without some means of keeping track of how many goods and
> services each person has received?

How can you maintain EQUALITY?!!  WTF?!  Market systems are
particularly notorious for causing drastic inequalitiies, Mark.  I
really don't know how many hits you've taken on your crackpipe, but
you probably took quite a large number.

-- 
Yes, I know my enemies.
They're the teachers who tell me to fight me.
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance,
hypocrisy, brutality, the elite.
All of which are American dreams.

              - Rage Against The Machine

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