From: Dickey, Michael F (michael_f_dickey@groton.pfizer.com)
Date: Thu Mar 28 2002 - 12:34:52 MST
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From: the animated silicon love doll [mailto:cheshire@velvet.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 12:31 PM
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: Re: Discrimination
" Which is sad, and makes me somewhat afraid of the posibility of this
country actually going fairly libertarian. "
Hmm, I wouldnt worry about that happening anytime soon there chesh. I dont
think we will see any semblance of a libertarian esque 'government' until
the average person starts demanding less and less from the government
because technology is providing them with more and more. This will probably
be when technology makes the basic necessities of life, like food,
sustinence, energy, and safety cheap enough that the vast majority of the
population essentially has guranteed access to it. After that government
will probably be demoted to limited land ownership claims, if anything at
all. But not because people will actively seek to remove government from
those equations, but because no one will care all that much about the
government nor ask much from it.
Michael
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