I have long thought that a true laissez-faire society would need to be socialist. After all, without coercion forcing so many of us to one activity or another, we would know which activities actually mattered. Can you imagine farming and sewage disposal swelling with workers once sheer need actually dictated a rise in wages?* If nobody needed to work, work would need to be something fit for human beings.
Very simple, I suppose, but that's the level at which I'm starting.
*And yes, it smacks of ignorance to talk of wages at all...
without coercion forcing so many of us to one activity or another, we would know which activities actually mattered.
ReplyDelete3 blogs ago I re-imagined work and commerce along those lines. In a fit of frustration at my friends & acquaintances then being duopoly-enslaved consumerists, I destroyed the essay series. Wishing now I hadn't been so impulsive.
I think we've all pulled a Howard Roark and thought better of it at some point.
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