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Re: Goodness of Man? (was: Re: Merry Christmas from the Libertarian Party
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Sun, 2 Jan 2000 01:47:26 GMT
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On Sat, 1 Jan 2000 23:10:19 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
wrote:
> Jasper Janssen wrote:
> > The reason those two are so much higher now than they were then is
> > _specialisation_. A libertarian society would just about require
> > everyone to be a homo universalis.
>
> Again, hardly. The most frontierlike part of america right now is the
> e-space. Vast fortunes are being made by people armed with nothing more
> than an idea, some skill, and a LOT of hard work (working on internet
> time means working LONG hours). But those people are more specialised
> than you or I, even.
"E-space" (Now _there's_ a horrible term if I ever heard one. Almost
as bad as "Information Superhighway"), however, is hardly
frontier-like.
> > So that's why you like the days of the colony so much. You don't care
> > about the right to free speech, or the right to equal treatment, and
> > the like. (And if you can convincingly reduce _those_ to property
> > rights, that'll be quite a feat).
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> Reread older posts, I already did.
Gimme some search terms or general dates to work with. You're too
prolific a poster (even when you add "+body: right") to just reread it
all.
Jasper
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