[extropy-chat] Socialism versus Transhumanism

[randy]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 06:38:00 -0800 (PST), you wrote

>
>--- Max M <maxm at mail.tele.dk> wrote:> 
>> Being a social democrat also means that you are agreeing with a
>> system that has been prooved to work pretty well in several nations.
>> 
>> Being libertarian means that you support a theoretical system that is
>> supposed to work as in the economic theory.
>> 
>> It's just like most medical trials, they allways works in theory.
>> Often they also work in the petri dish on single cells. But when it
>> comes to working in the whole body as actuall medicine, they allmost
>> allways fail.
>
>Interesting view, which doesn't seem to reflect that the socialist
>systems of europe always maintain higher unemployment 

Actually, a lot of the jobs people have in the USA would not even
qualify as jobs in many european countries--they pay much less than
unemployment over there, and of course the minmum wage is generally
much higher over there. 

>and lower growth
>than the US, 

They also have lower immigration, and so therefore do not require as
high a growth rate.

>which, while not libertarian, is significantly further
>along in that direction. Within the US, more libertarian states tend to
>higher growth than their less libertarian immediate neighbors.
>
>=====
>Mike Lorrey
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