Re: Comparing Lisp conditions to Java Exceptions

Rajappa Iyer wrote: 
Ulrich Hobelmann <u.hobelmann@xxxxxx> writes:


What's the problem in distribution of wealth?  Rich people aren't the
problem (the more the better!); barriers that prevent poor people from
making money are.


If history is any guide, then, without state intervention, wealth
tends to get concentrated with a few individuals who then employ this
wealth to erect precisely those barriers that you find problematic.
What is your solution?

Sure, money buys state. Today you see big companies buying laws from our parliaments. If there are no laws allowed, except laws governing freedom and property (murder, theft, fraud is not allowed), then there is no way for them to create them. Of course they could enslave lots of people (if they agree), just like I said that anyone could create their own Communism in a free society. I won't care about that. I just don't want to be part of it.

If Mr Rich says he wants software patents, why should anybody accept that? In our society laws are decreed by the state, who has the monopoly on police and military, so we can't really do anything...

Anyway, the fight for freedom is constantly ongoing; it's just that in a decentralized system it would be harder to gain power over people than in our current centralized system, where you just bribe the hub and all the spokes follow on their own.

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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln
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