[ExI] totalitarian techniques

[William Flynn Wallace]

Spike, you keep making these grand statements which are not even arguably
true.  Lack of money did not stop all the tyrants in history (I will grant
you that some of them 'perceived' a lack of money).  I do think that a
guaranteed income would get rid of a lot of problems, for sure.  "If I give
you some money would you stop robbing me?"  I think that's a fair trade.
What would be even better is that if the lower classes banded ('banded
together' is redundant) and formed a political party.  Put enough of them
together and they will have plenty of money, and will get donations from
progressives etc.   bill w

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 10:00 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> >…"The love of money is the root of all evil."  Not really 'all', but
> much.  bill w
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> Billw, the real truth is related.  The love of money is in all of us.  It
> is in the good and the evil among us, and in even the ambiguously good/evil
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> The love of money axis is orthogonal to the good/evil axis.  I can easily
> see the entire good/evil axis end to end from my vantage point, for I am
> way out here on the love of money axis. We have always gotten along well,
> money and me, always liked each other, since childhood, and it grew into a
> most sincere and enduring love.  I have never even quarreled with my
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> The real truth is this sir:  It isn’t love of money that is down there at
> the bottom of the evil tree.  The lack of money is the root of all evil.
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