Re: META: Why I'm boycotting Extropy(TM).

From: Paul Hughes (paul@planetp.cc)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 15:11:16 MDT


hal@finney.org wrote:

> I don't take Paul's critique to be a call for more government programs.
> Most of what he (and others in the thread) criticizes IS government.
> The DMCA is a government law.

Thanks for clarifying the issue and hopefully getting this thread back on
track.

> Although Paul mostly points at big business as being the root cause,
> obviously this is not the case because states that have eliminated big
> business have at least as much trouble with corruption and unfairness.

No, I don't see big business as the root cause. The problem I see is a lack
of free-market ideas and/or constraints that would prevent the top 50% of the
wealthy from ruling over the bottom 50%.

Paul Hughes



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