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Posted by: Gee on March 02, 1999 at 16:51:34:

In Reply to: It's half the battle. posted by Lark on March 02, 1999 at 14:03:57:

I have studied business in the past and specialised in Management studies which I have discovered from my own experience of working in a supermarket is a lot of shit. They teach you that lassiz-faire style and libertarian attitudes get results but in my experience every boss is arbitary, ignorant, authoritarian and specialises in unco-operative intimedation.

The experience you have encountered (and I have too, as I said) is actually a good argument for laissez faire - those types of bosses are also inefficient and less likely to create value. Infact I quote some director (in a mag somewhere) who said that the board is made up of 1 or 2 business creators and a lot of hangers on. This has been my experience at various 'levels' in companies.

: I'm a deeply religious bloke and it is a main stay of my socialism but apart from an avade interest in Liberation Theology I tend to think religion being a matter of individual investigation and decision should be kept out of public/political life.

seperation of religion and state - very good idea. What about seperation of economics and state for the same reasons?

: I started out as a statist believeing in a type of national-utilitarianism but gradually through reading I've adopted more libertarian views and I'm sympathetic to anarchism, particularly Syndicalism, but until the revolution I'll be voting for the most socialistic parties about.

Doesnt that actually work against your goal by creating ever more statism? It doesnt matter what shade the statist structure is, the more of there is the harder to untangle.


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