Re: Gov't Loves Gov't

From: Charlie Stross (charlie@antipope.org)
Date: Mon Jan 26 1998 - 03:03:13 MST


On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 07:36:18AM -0500, James Daugherty wrote:
> Long ago Libertarians have solved the problem of the commons by eliminating the
> commons and devising systems of private property to replace it....where have you
> been?
>

In the UK. A country where the nearest thing to a libertarian politician
ever to gain power was fairly regulary burned in effigy until she resigned.
(Clue: the whole world doesn't work the same way as your back yard, or mine.)

-- Charlie



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