[extropy-chat] Socialism versus Transhumanism

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Max M <maxm at mail.tele.dk> wrote:> 
> Being a social democrat also means that you are agreeing with a
> system that has been prooved to work pretty well in several nations.
> 
> Being libertarian means that you support a theoretical system that is
> supposed to work as in the economic theory.
> 
> It's just like most medical trials, they allways works in theory.
> Often they also work in the petri dish on single cells. But when it
> comes to working in the whole body as actuall medicine, they allmost
> allways fail.

Interesting view, which doesn't seem to reflect that the socialist
systems of europe always maintain higher unemployment and lower growth
than the US, which, while not libertarian, is significantly further
along in that direction. Within the US, more libertarian states tend to
higher growth than their less libertarian immediate neighbors.

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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
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