Galt's Gulch

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  • Posted by bschnzl 13 years, 8 months ago
    We will trade mainly by mutual advantage again (people). The question is: Will the Constitution still be relevant when we do...
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    • Posted by khalling 13 years, 8 months ago
      Without a Constitution, someone will decide it's in their personal advantage to use force. Where is the mechanism to enforce long term contracts, for example. There is absolutely no evidence to state anarchy works. Go back to Plato and Aristotle for proof of this. Everyone would have to protect themselves, leads to mob rule, mob rule ends up in dictatorship-historically.
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  • Posted by bschnzl 13 years, 8 months ago
    So ...
    It comes down to do we want Chicago running things, or New York, or Washington...
    Ultimately, all governments (societies) fail...
    Eventually we come back to pervasive trading for mutual advantage. The only question is: how much misery will be experienced due to too much control!
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    • Posted by khalling 13 years, 8 months ago
      I think there is already a Misery Index out there. The official govt answer is that we currently the CPI is 2.5% (2011). Of course they continue to change the rules on how that's figured. IF we did it to standards in the 90s the index would show 5%, 80s-9%, more than 3x higher than they are currently claiming. I LOVE sliding scale stats.
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