04-15-2005, 07:11 AM
Who said everyone would have to make everything for themselves? No, I meant that anyone could make anything they wanted for themself, but everyone would be guaranteed the basics by nonprofits.
Rousseau was full of shit when he said that.
Greed and power hunger are not part of the natural condition, they are part of there not being enough for everyone and people bickering over who gets what. With modern industrial technology comes a great gift: At last, if we keep our numbers from rising too high, we can supply plenty for everyone. The problems are that 1. We refuse for some reason to keep our numbers down and 2. That we still run by pre-industrial pre-having-enough social systems like capitalism.
Once again I iterate, correlation does NOT equal causation. Just because the Fair Labor Standards Act was passed during an economic recession (a natural thing since reform is usually only called for in times of hardship) doesn't mean it caused the recession. There were a million other conditions that could have done it. I'm just a bit too lazy to find an American History website to look it up on.
Rousseau was full of shit when he said that.
Greed and power hunger are not part of the natural condition, they are part of there not being enough for everyone and people bickering over who gets what. With modern industrial technology comes a great gift: At last, if we keep our numbers from rising too high, we can supply plenty for everyone. The problems are that 1. We refuse for some reason to keep our numbers down and 2. That we still run by pre-industrial pre-having-enough social systems like capitalism.
Once again I iterate, correlation does NOT equal causation. Just because the Fair Labor Standards Act was passed during an economic recession (a natural thing since reform is usually only called for in times of hardship) doesn't mean it caused the recession. There were a million other conditions that could have done it. I'm just a bit too lazy to find an American History website to look it up on.