From: Cynthia (cyn386@flash.net)
Date: Mon Mar 27 2000 - 05:27:30 MST
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From: Adrian Tymes <wingcat@pacbell.net>
To: <extropians@extropy.com>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: Hated rulers
> Cynthia wrote:
> > > There's also the question of whether the indiginous population would
> > > welcome the reinstatement of imperialist external rule. Most of those
> > > countries worked hard to throw off the yoke of Western colonialism.
> > > Economically many countries are worse off, but it would be a terrible
> > > blow to their pride to ask for the hated rulers to come back in and
> > > start running things again.
> >
> > If you have an apartment house that you aren't managing well, you can hire a
> > management company to do it for you. There are cities that contract out
> > ambulance services, garbage collection, and even fire fighting services, in
> > order to save money. Why not contract out the entire government to a large
> > corporation who could manage the country professionally?
>
> An interesting idea, but how would you keep these new governments from
> passing laws that lock out all competitors, to prevent replacement in
> case they themselves become corrupt (or were corrupt all along)? If the
> governments are restricted from passing laws...well, nobody's perfect
> (yet), and neither are any existing set of laws, so who gets to debug
> whatever legal system people come up with as the flaws are found?
These issues have been dealt with before, and that is why constitutions have
been developed. Code the rights of the people and the duties of the corporation
into an unchangeable constitution. But allow sensible regulations to be passed
by the corporation, dealing with day to day matters.
The nice thing about it, is that people will no longer have to deal with
political issues. Right now, if you don't like your ISP, you sign up with
another ISP. You don't concern yourself with who the president of your ISP is,
how your ISP budgets its money, or attend the board meetings that your ISP has.
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