[ExI] Transhumanism and Politics

[Samantha Atkins]

On Jan 27, 2008, at 2:39 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:

> On 27/01/2008, Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Governments don't have any money except what they print out of thin
>> air or take out of your pocket.   And they waste the majority of
>> that.   I wish I was truly on my own here without hands in my purse  
>> or
>> the value of what is in my purse being decreased endlessly.   That
>> would be much better than what exists anywhere on earth.
>
> There are the countries which are considered tax havens, but often
> that is their only claim to fame. Why is that?
>

Because that is such a huge relief that they don't need anything else  
to keep their citizen's in clover?   Some of the relative less taxed  
locations become substantial business and research centers.    But I  
was not even talking about tax havens so how does the above constitute  
a reasonable response?

- samantha