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> You wrote this like the ideas are mutually exclusive. No, I am writing like one of them has shown to be completely useless in effecting any type of real chan
by rglullis 4y ago
> You wrote this like the ideas are mutually exclusive.
No, I am writing like one of them has shown to be completely useless in effecting any type of real change, while the other is an equalizing force.
> Software license has nothing to do with what rulings are possible.
The software license has nothing to do with it. It is the economic and social forces that differ.
- drekk 4y agoI wouldn't consider the abolishment of child labor or enforcement of the 40 hr standard workweek as "completely useless" If government is supposedly accountable to the people it should serve public ends. If it doesn't it should be replaced. I thought that was the entire "Amwrican experiment"? Huh, guess it's a generational thing
- rglullis 4y ago> I wouldn't consider the abolishment of child labor or enforcement of the 40 hr standard workweek as "completely useless" Regulations haven't abolished any of that, they just pushed to China, where you still happily buy products from because they are so cheap. > American experiment First, the American experiment was to have a loosely coupled federation of states and to have spread power on the lower spheres of influence. That experiment has been abandoned for a while. Second, the world should not not revolve around what American people and its government wants to do.