<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Well, that's the key narrative behind statism: yeah, the state is robbing you and, heck, it might even shot you dead, but you do get some benefits from it. No doubt, the English told the same to the Irish (and the Scots, etc.<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>) when they invaded -- just as the US does today when it invades -- er, liberates some neighborhood* or country. "Hey, you could be worse off! Don't knock it! And crawl a little faster, boy!"</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">* Just thinking of the antiwar protest sign from the Vietnam Era: "US out of Brooklyn!" (This was alongside "US out of Vietnam!")</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Damien Broderick <thespike@satx.rr.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, July 14, 2011 7:11 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [ExI] rugged individualists<BR></FONT><BR>On 7/14/2011 5:50 PM, David Lubkin wrote:<BR><BR>> But as the sole owner of a corporation that has hired me, I am<BR>> required to pay into the unemployment fund and am prohibited<BR>> from collecting from it.<BR><BR>Is it conceivable that
you gain more financial benefits from this arrangement (given the existence of US as it is) than you might otherwise? Or than those not in this position who *can* collect unemployment benefits?<BR><BR>Damien Broderick</DIV></DIV></div></body></html>