[ExI] Strong libertarianism, societal good, & suffering (was: Cephalization, proles)

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Tue May 31 06:29:44 UTC 2011


On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Damien Sullivan
<phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Ok, except that only ~0.001%(a made up number) of their taxes go to
>> basic research while ~55% (another made up number) go to social
>
> Why use made-up numbers?  A quick look around shows abotu 2% of federal
> spending going to research.  Welfare's harder to tease apart, but maybe
> 5% by one analysis, though that might have included state/local spending
> too.

### Seriously, the poor are just an afterthought and a pretext used in
internecine political warfare among the groups that have power. The
poor are not the problem with government, the problem is stupid waste
(i.e. misallocation) of resources resulting from interminable power
games among players.

Having a long-feedback hierarchical rigid computational system is a bad idea.

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>
> The US is lagging in small businesses compared to countries with
> universal health care.

### Almost all problems of the US health care are directly caused by
the government, including non-portable and overpriced insurance
policies.

Rafal




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