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From: "Tim May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Yep. Good bye.
Look, everyone, I'm putting him in my killfile too! [I can't do that without
saying it publicly, this would ruin the effect, right?]
Tim, I used to admire you. Sadly, it looks that I'm the only fucking
anarchist left on Earth. [Even Murray Rothbard advocated *for* copyrights,
as I understand...] Well, I'm not very certain about David Friedman and
Walter Block, though if Tim May supports state intervention, everything else
is fair game...
> There is basically no way that Zimbabwe or Chechnya or Bangla Desh or
> Romania is ever going to catch up to the West. The challenge is to
> make sure that they "die the good death" without contaminating us.
Actually, there is a way. We just have to wait until the US becomes as
socialist as Romania. Which seems quite likely, especially with Tim May
advocating state intervention in private affairs...
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From: "Reese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> You sure are turning into a communist sympathizer lately Tim.
Which, were I not to read those emails myself, I would have bet my life
against.
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From: "Craig Brozefsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hmm, how is your theory about the under supply of labor reconciled
> with a global unemployment (just counting work force, not every single
> mouth) hovering around 33% for the last few years? My source is the
> International Labor Organization's annual report on unemployment
> around the globe.
Since human wants are infinite, unemployment is clearly NOT caused by a lack
of (potential) jobs. Read some economics (not Keynesian - Austrians', or
David Friedman's) books: most, if not all, cases of unemployment are caused
by state intervention in the market. For example, a mandatory minimum wage
will mean that all those who aren't that valuable for their employers will
remain without a job.
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From: "Tom Vogt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrong. I must quote from memory since I don't have the book here, but if
> you want title, author and ISBN, just ask:
>
> at the current standard of living for canada, we would ALREADY need two
> ADDITIONAL earths to sustain the CURRENT world population.
>
> even without a change in standards of living, given current growth and
> the nature of exponential functions, we will exhaust this planet's
> resources ca. 200 years from now.
I won't copy the entire text of "The Ultimate Resource" here. Anyway, the
notion of "finite resources" is dumb. All resources are infinite. The Earth
is round. Deal with it.
[I can't stop wondering what kind of image do you have in your head: one
morning, you wake up and discover that you no longer have food in your
house. You go to the store to buy some more, but discover that *nobody* has
food anymore. (Replace food with wood, oil, anything.) Yeah, that must be
it...]
Mark
