Craig <[email protected]> wrote:
> Who wants to slow down technology? I want to stop the subjugation of > people through threats of violence. You seem obsessed by this notion. No one threatens you today with violence if you do not use electricity in your house. It is a fact that you cannot build a house in Georgia or Pennsylvania without electricity and a flush-toilet. That's enforced by law, which I suppose in some sense means it is backed by violence. For that matter, so is a library fine. In actual fact, no one is going to come after you for having a house with no flush toilet. (I have one.) Technological imperatives enforce themselves. As Kettering said, you will install self-starters, willy-nilly. > A couple of points: > > If human labor is worthless, then wealth will be prevalent; and when > wealth is prevalent, there will be a lot of people willing to share > wealth. History shows you are wrong. Present conditions show you are wrong. We have tons of wealth today, but it is concentrated in the hands of very few people. If they had their way, they would take the rest if it. Wealthy people in general are never inclined to share their money. Never. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0ehzfQ4hAQ > You don't have to force people to use your currency, fill out > your forms, pay your taxes, so that you can then distribute the wealth > through some central bureaucracy. > You do if you want live in a first-world society, with traffic signals and influenza vaccinations from the CDC. If you do not compel people to pay for these things, you end up with a country like Mexico, China, or at worst, Somalia. > None of these things: highways, airports, telephones, sewers, water, and > nuclear power plants, have to be centralized through some government > agency, which prevents competition. Yes they do. That's how things work today. Maybe in the future they will not, but most of these things are paid for by taxes and administered by the government. > There are many people who are more > than willing to provide the services that other people need. No there are not, and even if there were, they could not afford to do it for free. - Jed
