Re: The Problem with Programming



It called the individual against the collective. Its Nazism/socialism/statism,
etc applied to Corporations. Individuals are asked to sacrifice themselves and
serve the collective.

Read Ayn Rand, Objectivism, for a proper ethical politics.

-Bill Egge


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