From: Erik Aronesty (erik@zoneedit.com)
Date: Tue Oct 28 2003 - 11:28:54 MST
"Is taxation not a quintissentially socialist concept?"
Only when it is structured properly.
Fuedal lords would tax the poor to finance armies which would enforce their own wealth.
Taxes are like any other tool.
Graduated taxes, such that the wealthy are taxed oin gereater proportion to the poor is an appropriate correction for capitals natural tendancies.
When the money is used for education, social services, and to foster small business growth - it restores balance to the system.
As our future transforms, anyone will be able to be hyper-intelligent, strong, and long-lived. We are eroding the importance of "genetics" from the equation of value. We are slowly replacing it with "memetics". That is: the information and ideas a vector has are far more important than their physical form.
More importantly, we recognize that the ideas they have are there largely by accident. To condemn someone as "lazy" merely because the "personal motivation meme" has not properly taken root is ludicrous.
Thus we design a system whereby people are offered the opportunity, motivation and education required to memetically reengineer them for contributing to society. While doing this, we must be mindful nev er to use force, as to do so would be to abandon our original premises and the stability of the system.
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