[p2p-research] Abundance Destroys Profit [was: Tick, tock, tick, tock… BING]

[J. Andrew Rogers]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Same reason the US has two Senators from S. Dakota and 2
> from California but calls itself a democracy.


The US Senate is a democracy of independent States for international
matters. Hence why until modern times the State governments chose
their representatives in the US Senate.  The US House of
Representatives is the only part of the Federal government that is a
democracy of the people. It is the same reason Americans do not vote
for the US President, the President is the executive of the States and
not the people (millions of utterly clueless Americans
notwithstanding).

For most intents and purposes, power was supposed to be vested in the
(presumably democratic) State governments, and the Federal government
was only supposed to deal with international and inter-state matters
that don't really involve people per se.  Obviously Americans have
kind of damaged that arrangement, and so there are lash-ups related to
using systems in ways they were never intended (and frequently to no
good end).


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J. Andrew Rogers
realityminer.blogspot.com