[748] in libertarians
Re: Ok, YOU Balance the Budget!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vernon Imrich)
Fri Feb 24 14:10:02 1995
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Feb 1995 22:58:52 EST."
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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 14:07:56 EST
From: Vernon Imrich <vimrich@MIT.EDU>
|> The new idea I had was a SimCity like game wherein one plays dictator
|> of a small nation. However, hidden with in the programming of the
|> game would be libertarian assumptions, so that the more the player
|> tried to control the economy for greater productivity, regulate
|> factories for a better environment, or institute racial quotas for
|> domestic harmony, the more the undesired effects would occur (as we
|> often see in real life). Newspaper reports/status updates would be
|> issued regularly on the responses of citizens and companies to
|> government policy, or on their independent actions. Players would
|> gradually be led to the realization that the best environment,
|> economy, etc. could be achieved through laisez-faire (sp?) policies.
laissez faire
|> I'm almost tempted to spend the next n years of my life writing such a
|> program, then distribute it as free ware to as many US elementary
|> schools as possible...
Reminds me of the climactic moment in that movie War Games. After
trying all possible simulations of "global thermo nuclear war" the
computer concludes: "Strange game. The only way to win is not to play."
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