[extropy-chat] Extropic Freedom and the Fate of Dissidents

[spike]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-
> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Davis
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 3:47 PM
> To: ExI chat list
> Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] Extropic Freedom and the Fate of Dissidents
> 
> --- spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > I am often seen going about with a bottle of
> > distilled water and a SCUBA tank.  ...

In response to a comment by Avantguardian that
went something like: I live in Taxifornia where
socialism is in the air we breathe and the water
we drink.

With all our environmental protection laws, I
am confident that the masses will eventually be
able to draw in a deep breath of pure fresh
capitalism, and drink deeply of clean, pure
unfettered commerce.

Jeff wrote:
> 
>...Do you realize that fluoridation is the most
> monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we
> have ever had to face?
> 
> Best, Jeff Davis

Oh dear no Jeff.  The commies have much bigger
plots than fluoridation, heh, that was small
potatoes.  Besides, it was the dentists behind this 
particular plot, but they may have been commie 
dentists.  Gotta watch those commie dentists, 
can't trust 'em, ya know.

{8^D

Jeff, with regard to your comment regarding
the failure of public education to prepare
proles to run businesses, I can only agree.  I
went thru the public schools and an engineering
degree, attending over 90% of the classes, yet I 
recall not a single mention of how to start and
run a business.  For that matter, I do not recall 
any council on how to be a smart consumer.

I do not blame teachers for this: teachers are
not business owners, nor did they major in business.  I
blame not the state: it offers only job training, not
necessarily life training.  To learn those kinds of
lessons, one must go to private school.  To learn
business, you must go to a business school.  To hear
lectures by teachers who actually *know* from 
business, you need to go to a really expensive
business school.  Public schools are never going
to do any of this.

Fortunately, those who cannot afford expensive
business schools have an acceptable option.  They
go to work for someone who has started a business.  They
work hard, they watch and learn, then some day they
launch their own business, perhaps in direct competition 
with their former employers.  Everyone wins: the employer
gets, for a time, a hardworking and profitable servant,
the servant gets a business education, the public gets
two firms competing to serve where previously there was
only one, driving down the price of the goods and
services.

The system works!

Ahhhhhhh, life is goooood.  

spike