[ExI] Cephalization, proles--Where is government going?

Samantha Atkins sjatkins at mac.com
Fri May 13 19:54:34 UTC 2011


On 05/11/2011 10:50 PM, Will Steinberg wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki
> <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 2011/5/11 Mr Jones<mrjones2020 at gmail.com>:
>> ### If new nasty shit shows up in water, you can sue. If the value of
>> the water is lower than the value of the gas, then the gas producer
>> will have enough money to pay you off, and then some. If the harm
>> inflicted by poisoning water (which in this case is purely
>> theoretical) were higher than the benefit to gas consumers, the
>> producer will be bankrupted.
>>
>> Self-regulation in action.
>>
> You live in a fantasy world.
>
> Money does not equal quality of life.  Affected people cannot afford
> to sue companies or are too disillusioned.  Not everyone knows how to
> do perfect, economic cost-benefit analysis.

More of a fantasy than expecting hordes of politicians, bureaucrats, and 
public servants to figure out what is best for everyone and make sure 
all things are done for the good of everyone?

>    Does it even apply?  The
> details of every transaction are obscured; the people are constantly
> kept out of the loop and in debt.

They are kept out of debt by government wrecking of the economy in part 
by long and major misallocation of capital and other resources.  It is 
not in the interest of the business people to keep customers poor.  It 
is not in the interest of business people to put out an inferior product 
and inflated cost in a free economy as a competitor will put out a 
better product at lower cost and eat their lunch.

>    They do not want dirty money to
> keep drinking water.  They are angry.

There are many things they should be angry about but this is not one of 
them - not in the scale of things they should be very very unhappy 
about.  But it is in the interest of government to channel all rage 
possible to anything but government.


>    These are insidious societal
> problems that do not go away, only continue to cause damage as they
> become less noticeable under a mass of red tape.

What generates red tape?  The government.  It generates more and more 
red tape the more it is given authority over more areas of human action.

- s




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