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[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

On 01/20/2014 12:05 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
> |
> | Going even further way off topic, but I don't really think slavery
> | has
> | been abolished, it's just changed.  Think about this:  Are you
> | self-sufficient, or do you *need* to have a job?  Is your land large
> | enough that you can grow all your own food, catch all your own water,
> | or
> | is it so small that you need to do something (work for someone else,
> | usually) to survive.  If you can't be totally self-sufficient, and
> | independent, then you're not really free.  In this day and age, many
> | of
> | us are slaves to the bank, with near life-long mortgages.  And we're
> | slaves to the government, one way or another.  We have to have a job
> | to
> | pay for what we need, and to pay for what the government demands from
> | us.  A tax on this, a tax on that, for every damn fool thing they
> | want
> | to do, never mind the things that are justifiable and worthy of
> | distributing the cost across the population.
> |
> | > At least I have a massive voice that is listened to at the
> | > university.
> |
> | That statement's just ripe for making jokes with, but I'll let the
> | opportunity pass.
> |
> \
> Tim:
>
> "Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains" Locke 1768(?)
>
> You are not slave to the Government unless you choose to be. You, and everyone in the state (in the global sense, as opposed to the American) controls the government.
>
> I suppose your lines, and lines like it from everyone in the group are why you do computers and why I should hang my hat, quit the group, pursue my projects and let you live your false assumptions about the state and its institutions, and build the operating system without me.
>
> Regards,
> Richard
Sounds like a plan...

Mikkel
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