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The system is designed by us. We can change it if there is the political will.
by rorykoehler 11y ago
The system is designed by us. We can change it if there is the political will.
- lmm 11y agoYou seemed to be implying that there wouldn't be violent objections to such redistribution. There will be. And even assuming you succeed in that redistribution, the original point remains: in a zero-growth world, people who want to get ahead will try to do so by taking from others, ultimately through violence.
- danharaj 11y agoThere cannot possibly be social institutions devised to prevent violent people from disrupting everyone else's life, right?
- lmm 11y agoSuch institutions didn't stop Genghis Khan. In a time of growth people are willing to pay taxes to support social institutions, but will that still be true in a zero-growth world?