On 2009-Mar-04, at 10:16, Mark Smith wrote: >> On 2009-Mar-03, at 21:48, Mark Smith wrote: >> >>> The repubs are at least philosophically worse, because >>> their motivation is not saving jobs, or helping poor families, but >>> rather continuing to line the pockets of the rich. >> >> >> At this point, we may be facing novel levels of collapse. It may be >> so >> new that none of the old philosophies matter anymore. > >> > From the perspective of the society, when times are hard, it is > necessary to target resources at keeping as many people above the > poverty level as possible. It will always make more sense to let the > rich slide into mere comfort and the comfortable into a tolerable > degree of discomfort, than to let those with their heads barely above > water to slip below the level at which they make any contribution to > the economy (employment and health being the primary factors). The > extent of the disaster does not change this. That was my point.
Yes you're right, people have to be kept above the poverty level. But I could imagine in a bad scenario, the way to do that will necessitate imposing a completely dictatorial command and control hierarchy/network, ie. something that doesn't fit with republican nor democrat philosophies. Stefano _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
