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That's interesting Gee

Posted by: lark on March 03, 1999 at 13:51:43:

In Reply to: most interesting posted by Gee on March 02, 1999 at 16:51:34:

: 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.

That's interesting Gee, I could live in marginal happiness if capitalism could be purged of authoritarianism and parasite bureaucracy but then you have the problem of self interest if we've a nation of would be shopkeepers whose going to buckle under and accept the shopworkers posts?

: seperation of religion and state - very good idea.

Yes and I'm all on for a more radical notion of the seperation of religion and institutional church.

:What about seperation of economics and state for the same reasons?

Fine state economics arent an ideal of mine any longer but I do realise that the lives of all the Pauls will be improved by robbing the Peters so I'm for it, I am in this respect utilitarian, however my ultimate goal is one where the Peters gladly contribute to the up keep of the Pauls and eventually you've only got Pauls.

: 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.

Well their are people who argue that I'm debating on the written page the whole matter with a Dublin Syndiaclist but Chomsky wrote at length in "Global Contradictions" and "Class Warfare" how without loosing sight of the ultimate aim these means could be employed to improve the immediate conditions of people.

Expanding the floor of the cage until we can break the bars.


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