From: Michael Lorrey (mike@lorrey.com)
Date: Mon Dec 14 1998 - 09:29:03 MST
Samael wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Lorrey <mike@lorrey.com>
> To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
> Date: 12 December 1998 01:04
> >Dick.Gray@bull.com wrote:
> >>
> >> What exactly is your objection to property as usually defined?
> >>
> >
> >I think that his main objection is that he has none.
>
> Not true. I have a house, a job, a computer and several thousands pounds
> worth of books, CDs, videos, etc.
>
> I'm a systems analyst, by the way, so I'm earning a few pounds here and
> there.
>
> To believe in an ideology does not mean that you would have to immediately
> benefit from it. I would expect myself to fall into the 'short term loss'
> category from taxation before the advantages of the system brought long term
> benefits.
Well its good to see you're not a welfare layabout. However I sense that you
have a rather severe resentment against anyone who has more than you. Why is
this? Did someone take your toys away as a child? Humiliated by the rich boys?
Or were you born in a wealthy liberal household which was beset by guilt for its
wealth?
Rather than just bitching about how property is theft, I suggest you propose a
detailed workable system under which resources are maximally utilized to benefit
all, given that all resources originally belong to nobody. If you can't give a
sufficient answer then please shut up with your socialist nonsense.
Mike Lorrey
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