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I assumed since he was writing on PopeHat. My bad for making that assumption.
by ZanyProgrammer 12y ago
I assumed since he was writing on PopeHat. My bad for making that assumption.
- teraflop 12y agoI think you're confusing popehat.com with antipope.org. Charles Stross is a self-described socialist.
- smsm42 12y agoBeing a libertarian myself, I must admit I rather tend to agree with the socialist guy here. Smaller governments are better especially if they'd be socialist. If the government in the place where I live decides to build socialism, I'd like to be able to move before the toilet paper shortages start (I don't know what is special about toilet paper but socialists tend to have worst of luck with it [1]) and smaller is the government smaller is the distance I would have to move to regain access to this under-appreciated commodity. So besides all political reasons the most practical reason of minimizing the risk and the transaction costs if the worst does happen, smaller governments are better for me. [1] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-09-27/venezuela-is-running-out-of-toilet-paper- http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-09-27/venezuela-i...