From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2000 - 06:00:08 MDT
Zero Powers wrote:
>
> >From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@turbont.net>
> >
> >Zero Powers wrote:
>
> > > I'm a willing capitalist now. But there are many in our society who
> >don't
> > > have my luck and/or ability. Some of them live at a level of
> >subsistence
> > > which IMO is beneath that fit for a human. That saddens me. I believe
> >that
> > > someday we'll be able to do better. That's *all* I was saying.
> >
> >Such people are the way they are because they buy the lie that they
> >deserve more than what they've got, that they should not have to work
> >for it. It saddens me that purportedly intelligent people like you
> >continue to give such failed ideas credence, which condemns generations
> >of millions of people to lives of squalor, hate, resentment, and failure
> >because they are programmed to beleive the lie you give credence to.
>
> Do you actually believe that capitalism can provide the means to universally
> eradicate poverty? That if every "lazy, stupid" etc. poor person "got off
> their lazy ass" they could live a life of abundance? Have you *ever*
> traveled to the third world? Can you possibly believe that the only reason
> some people are poor is because they are "programmed" to believe the lie
> that they cannot live any other way?
>
> Compared to Lorrey economics, the Lorrey drive looks downright feasible ;)
Its a capitalist society that creates your fabled utopia of
nano-technological freedom from want, and it will be a libertarian one
at that, because as it is now, governments are only interested in nano
for weapons, and don't want to give the common person access to the
technology for daily needs, then you must also beleive that 'capitalism
can provide the means'. What is it you don't understand about the fact
that more people live at a much higher standard of living where
capitalism is king than in any other nation? Capitalism is obviously
doing a much better job than your Marxism.
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