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Somewhere out there there's a social model that makes a lot more sense and just works, but we can't fathom it right now because we are so busy worrying about co

• mmj48 15y ago
  pieces on the ground? Care to give an example of this?
  • ronnix 15y ago
    or maybe it's a gallicism and he means "coins on the ground"?
• mtrn 15y ago
  As a software engineer, I would love to see all the tedious tasks people do all day replaced by technology. If having money is the only way to stay alive and I had a job, I would even pay higher taxes, just to let people do more of what they might love more (and what in the long run would benefit society in other ways). -- I guess, that this opinion is diametrical to current ideology.
  • psb217 15y ago
    The word you want in that last sentence is "diametrical", or perhaps "antipodal".
    • mtrn 15y ago
      English is not my native tongue, so thanks for the suggestion. (Now that you mention it, I found both words in the dictionary.)
• sliverstorm 15y ago
  I presume you meant "pieces of the ground". If my assumption is correct, let me reply- land has real value. This is for two reasons. First, everybody occupies space. We all live somewhere; space is valuable because we all have to occupy it, the same way that food is valuable because we all have to eat. Second, all wealth originates from two sources; human labor/effort, and natural resources. Natural resources are harvested from land. Thus, the competition over plots of land will go away only if land becomes so plentiful (or humans become so scarce) its value is unimportant, AND resources become so plentiful their value is also nominal. An example is air; it has little value, even though we all have to breathe, because there is so much of it.