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> When you're young, it's easy to have a knee-jerk reaction to authority. When you're old, it's easy to be an obedient minion. > But go spend any significant
by smokeyj 13y ago
> When you're young, it's easy to have a knee-jerk reaction to authority.
When you're old, it's easy to be an obedient minion.
> But go spend any significant time in a developing nation that lacks basic infrastructure, get close to the people living there, learn about their struggles and their dreams, and then come back and tell me that the solution is to abolish government.
Just because government isn't the answer doesn't mean destroying it is.
> But go spend any significant time in a developing nation
These developing nations seems to have plenty of government and regulation to go around considering their non-existent economy. Shouldn't they be fat and filthy rich by now?
- GHFigs 13y agoThese developing nations seems to have plenty of government and regulation to go around considering their non-existent economy. Which nations are you referring to, specifically?
- smokeyj 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country#List_of_developing_economies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country#List_of_deve...
- user24 13y ago> When you're old, it's easy to be an obedient minion. Please explain why vote participation increases with age then? I made this illustrative graph: http://i.imgur.com/Uhdub5G.png http://i.imgur.com/Uhdub5G.png edit: made the axes clearer.
- kshatrea 13y agoThe answer is simple: with age, welfare and benefits increase.