05-09-2017, 10:05 AM
What Galen does not understand also is that regulations and social programs paid for by taxes are also self-defense against the aggression initiated by the bosses. Pollution, destruction of Nature, inadequate payments for service rendered, inadequate services for payments given, other rip-off schemes and actions--- these are also forms of aggression.
And the libertarian/conservative "everyone must work/no free lunch/I don't want to pay for those who don't work" memes are also out of date in a time when machines are doing the work. The machines do not belong to the owners and bosses; they belong to all of us. Otherwise they do not perform in the way that the inventors and developers of those machines intended. They are not labor-saving devices unless they save labor for all, not just the owners.
And the libertarian/conservative "everyone must work/no free lunch/I don't want to pay for those who don't work" memes are also out of date in a time when machines are doing the work. The machines do not belong to the owners and bosses; they belong to all of us. Otherwise they do not perform in the way that the inventors and developers of those machines intended. They are not labor-saving devices unless they save labor for all, not just the owners.