Re: If you want a job... (was Re: [Nolug] Fwd: We need a Cisco Wi-Fi ...)

On 04/10/2011 05:57 PM, David Schneider wrote:
> Do you mean left of center or left of you?
>

My Utopian society is "libertarian right", but I know that Utopia means
"not a place".

Thus, many, many laws, unions, regulations, etc are needed in a large,
complicated heterogeneous society of woefully imperfect Man to protect
the weak from the strong and morally bankrupt. Note the Samuel Adams
quote in my signature. (Yet the producers of society *hate* such
regulations and will do anything -- like pick up and move away -- to get
to a region -- i.e. leaving California, Michigan and New York for South
Carolina, Georgia, Texas and the PRC -- where they can reap huge profits
in relative peace.)

So, that would seem to make me a State Capitalist.

OTOH, I know that people dynamically react to their circumstances and
there is a large segment of humanity that won't work if they don't have
to. (I count myself in that number: I have to work, so I do. If I
could somehow magically [i.e., from the Chinese] acquire a similar
income w/o working, then I'd quit in a heartbeat.) There are huge
swaths of people in this country who after generations of government
assistance have forgotten how to or think they deserve not to work.
They live in government-supplied "adequate poverty". (My Mother The
Rural Mail Carrier can show some of them to you.) That corrodes
society. Eventually it will collapse.

That, then, would seem to make me a Libertarian.

So, call me a Statist Libertarian that thinks it's all going to Hell in
a handbasket.

-- 
"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure
the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally
corrupt."
Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749
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