Topic: I don't feel like working anymore. (Read 7773 times)

Our current system is a joke. Let me know when we stop arresting people for things like marijuana and then we can talk about how great the system is.

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That's the post, with, like I said, the itemized numbers to get to 80k/family of 4. I would really like to see your list of estimated costs, so we can compare, critique, and come up with the most likely scenario.

Listen, I want free society. I can't stand the current US government -- I think you're right, that there is TONS of room for improvement, most relating to replacing people in simple jobs with computers. Whenever I have to work with someone whose job could be replaced by a computer, I make a note. We've got a lot of optimization we could do.

Most of my dislike for large organizations comes from being in charge of various things -- volunteer groups, etc. It's enough trouble getting things done correctly when you're in charge of 400 people, let alone 400 million -- I can't even imagine how that works. What I HAVE learned though is that larger groups get better deals on things. Better hotel group rates. Preference for renting buildings. I think part of the reason the US government can do what it does for the price it does has to do with it's size -- we're able to secure what we want for a lower price, because we're just so big.

At the end of the day, I think people are smart, and if given the opportunity and responsibility will do the right thing. Here in America, we were fairly recently given the opportunity and responsibility to decide how we wished to be governed -- our current system is what we've come up with, and it's worked pretty well, as evidenced by the fact that we haven't had any major revolutions/coups etc (at least since 1865).

Please post it again so I can embrace the Rosetta Stone, the Kepler--if you will--that is good, efficient and post-scarcity governance. May the Zeitgeist's be pleased that you have found the perpetual-motion of societal systems.

You know, you should even write a paper on the ultimate, unsurpassed efficiency that is government. You should even pass a law called "The Speed of Government" and how it shall not be surpassed because there can be no better. May government be the precipice of production as you so claim.

Enlighten me; shake me to my core.

I itemized prices with free market alternatives earlier. I even sliced some of them down to account for more competition without government monopolies. Those are the numbers I was referring to.

It's very easy to provide services at a better rate considering all the waste, excess benefits and corruption that exist in government. Really, it's very silly that you propose such an argument.

With profit incentive, things can be made very cheaply since people will act in their self-interest and will still have to provide a equitable product in return (else they fail). Have you heard of bureaucracy? It's a derogatory term for a reason. They have no accountability and have no reason to keep costs low.; they'll get their tax money at gun point regardless if the service is meeting people's desires.

I bet my life that if you disbanded all these government services, cheaper and more efficient ones would take there place; assuming people actually wanted them.

$25,019,360,000,000. That's the number, in dollars it would take to provide every person with the services I outlined. Lets divide that by four, since those numbers were for families of 4 (more or less). Actually, let's be nice and say there's at least 6 people per family.

4.17 Trillion. US budget for 2012 was 3.72 Trillion.

Seems to me like the US is providing those services for much cheaper than I could. PLEASE, PLEASE find better numbers than I did, rather than skirting around it.

So if I take your money and piss it all away then that's proof that you would have done the same? I don't think so.

The gov't runs a deficit.

You guys need to recognize trolling and stop feeding it.

You are on record.  I take it you have come to your senses and now see that there is in fact a difference between forcing a child to take an aspirin and raping him? 

Fuck you and your filthy mom please show me where i wrote child before the reply to you? Don't put words in my mouth!

Like the vaccine for HPV? But hey, why try to prevent cervical cancer? No real benefit there.

I am talking about the required designer meds they sell you on at the doctor's office.

Yes, eradicating smallpox had little benefit -- in fact I think the only thing that could do a smaller amount of good for mankind would be eradicating HIV/AIDS and Malaria.

Heh.

I have better things to do than give you a grammar lesson, and besides, there have already been several threads where people have done just that and you shrugged them off and kept on with your bullshit. You really don't listen to anyone, and you simply ignore any point that casts your belief system in a bad light, so what's the point? I don't even know why I'm writing this post.

Also, stop starting every damn post with "Heh".

Inconvenient and probable truths aren't necessarily religious conspiracy.

Heh. Is that so? Well, I'll be happy to see examples if you're willing to go through the trouble.

If you can't express yourself clearly or with words you understand that have definitions the rest of the world shares, that ain't my fault. Every one of your posts is a grammatical train wreck. When someone like Nabokov or McCarthy throws a million big words at you, it's not bad because they know what all of those words mean and know when and where to use them. You, on the other hand, come across like a kindergartener running around in his dad's oversized shoes and knocking shit everywhere.

I see.  Are you wearing your tinfoil hat ?