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Re: IP ( was Re: LP POINT 1
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 4 Dec 2000 15:51:24 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> > Libertopia would have lots of room for
> > people that wanted to get back to their own 40 acres, build a cabin from
> > scratch, weave their own clothes and chop wood instead of tooling around in
> > their new mercedes. But it would be their *choice*.
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> But not everyone could choose to do that... very few could.
Why is that? I think that basically everyone who wants to can even now.
Certainly the move to Libertopia would not change that.
> > > But, I am happy with what you call "government intrusion" and I'd be happy
> > > to pay more tax if my $$ is used well.
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> > I don't get it, exactly.
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> > If I can give you all the benefits of your system but with less costs, why
> > would you be against it?
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> Because I am happy with what I have already, I do not want more. I'd rather
> my saving was invested back into society.
But you would have more to invest back into your society _and_ you would have
the ability to choose how such investment should be made.
Chris
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| (...) OK, if an individual were are the bottom of the social/economic ladder in the US - how could they buy an axe to chop down the tree? Who's tree would they chop down? How would they get to the tree to chop it down? What would they weave cloths (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I'm not sure we they do. We have a different culture from you - we need less materialistic comfort. I suppose most of it harks back to our class structure. In the UK, most of my countrymen aim to rise up the class structure. Being (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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