Let's brainstorm for a second. You can do that, right? I mean, do you need a brain to brainstorm? Anyway, let's pretend that we're in an economic depression and that we're leading the government that's pressed to solve this depression. This one isn't caused by the introduction of machinery, by the spending sprees initiated by the government during an economic downturn or by a group of morons burning crops and confiscating private property. Let's pretend that this is a natural economic depression, for argument sake since there isn't such a thing. What's the problem? Massive unemployment, inflation of gathered goods and deflation of manufactured goods. Well, the last two things is entirely dependent on how many people are employed and how much demand there is so we'll just ignore them. That leaves unemployment. How to solve unemployment? Well, the only reasonable thing you can do is remove the minimum wage, ban women from working unskilled jobs, depopulate urban areas and run programs teaching people how to grow their own fruits or vegetables in their backyards or on their balconies. In other words do what a government isn't made to do which is to reduce it's control, recognise natural social hierarchies, reduce the consolidation of the population under it's control and teach people to be self-sustainable. This is why I don't envy any official. If they had any principles when they became an official, they've lost it long ago or have been severally sidelined.
J m HofMarN, on 02 April 2010 - 05:25 PM, said:
What I was saying was that you're apparently, hopefully, working towards some sort of a system of govenment that is servicable. I don't really care if its communism, capitalism, fascism, whatever, so long as you eventually figure out an idea other than "guns and flat taxes for all"
Moron, I'm against taxation. I don't know where you got flat taxes. But yeah, the government can invest into private property, buy bonds, trade with other governments, rent out land and do a whole bunch of other things that not only produce revenue but don't require you waiting a year for it. It doesn't need taxes. It only uses taxes to increase it's stranglehold on their subjects.
J m HofMarN, on 02 April 2010 - 05:25 PM, said:
That populace has to have some kind of driving force uniting it or they'll just die one by one. If the militia that decides to take over likes apples, and the one that defeats them likes oranges, the new government will be orange. They would do this because people like power, and oranges too.
Except it's not two militias. It's a whole bunch of militias. Then there's those who've left or were never part of the militias but are armed. There'd be a balance of power with no militia or group becoming the "new government."
J m HofMarN, on 02 April 2010 - 05:25 PM, said:
Corporations, unions and other cartels. Also government, but that's a given. There can't be a "free flow of capital" if organizations are constantly trying to monopolize said capital, right?
J m HofMarN, on 02 April 2010 - 05:25 PM, said:
I promise I won't a douche bag.
I don't trust you to keep your word.
J m HofMarN, on 02 April 2010 - 05:25 PM, said:
Thats not how working class works at all. Maybe if you'd read Marx instead of thinking that reading political philosophy was for losers, you'd know that class consciousness leads to collective bargaining which is necessary for workers to have any power against those who control the means of production.
PS: If more people started writing about me in their signatures, I'd realize I was doomed to be ignored and leave.
Collective bargaining? You mean some selfish pricks deciding how much I earn and how long I work regardless of how hard I work or how long I wish to work? Yeah, sounds great. Thanks Marx for giving stupid and corrupt people ideas. Anyway, you don't need unions because there's such a thing called wage inflation. What you need to do is stop wage controls and try to limit the number of unemployed people (the best amount being none) by reducing tax on businesses.
"I felt insulted until I realized that the people trying to mock me were the same intellectual titans who claimed that people would be thrown out of skyscrapers and feudalism would be re-institutionalized if service cartels don't keep getting political favors and regulations are cut down to only a few thousand pages worth, that being able to take a walk in the park is worth driving your nation's economy into the ground, that sexual orientation is a choice that can be changed at a whim, that problems caused by having institutions can be solved by introducing more institutions or strengthening the existing ones that are causing the problems, and many more profound pearls of wisdom. I no longer feel insulted because I now feel grateful for being alive and witnessing such deep conclusions from my fellows."
-Jimmy McTavern, 1938.