[65552] in Cypherpunks
Re: Workers Paradise. /Political rant.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike McNally)
Mon Sep 16 11:20:36 1996
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 10:00:37 -0500
From: Mike McNally <m5@tivoli.com>
Reply-To: m5@tivoli.com
To: jbugden@smtplink.alis.ca
Cc: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>, cypherpunks@toad.com
jbugden@smtplink.alis.ca wrote:
>
> A social safety net is simply a form of health and life > insurance.
And a really neat-o form it is, too! All it takes is an armed force
to coerce the unwilling into paying the premiums of those who don't
pay their own.
> Statistical arbitrage if you will. By spreading the risk you
> minimize the cost.
Yea right.
> Yes, some people will take advantage of the system. But like a
> virus, a robust system should be able to withstand this form of
> attack.
Sure; it's heavily armed, after all. Just gather up some more
loot.
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Mike M Nally * Tiv^H^H^H IBM * Austin TX * For the time being,
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<URL:http://www.io.com/~m101> * three heads and eight arms.
