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Sat Sep 20 17:30:33 UTC 2014 <xmj> moriarty: oh i know I can.
Sat Sep 20 17:30:29 UTC 2014 <moriarty> xmj, what i'm saying is, it's impossible to legislate every aspect of society to make it as idiotproof as possible
Sat Sep 20 17:30:10 UTC 2014 <moriarty> xmj, if you can't fend yourself against the traps of the powers that be, how do you hope to avoid buying a lemon when faced with a second-hand car dealer
Sat Sep 20 17:30:04 UTC 2014 <xmj> moriarty: i'm completely retarded, didn't you notice.
Sat Sep 20 17:29:45 UTC 2014 <moriarty> xmj, but you won't bite the bait if you had some modicum of intellect
Sat Sep 20 17:29:30 UTC 2014 <moriarty> xmj, but i guess i shouldn't sound so condescending, when i am attempting some candor
Sat Sep 20 17:29:11 UTC 2014 <moriarty> xmj, the traps are easily detectable were it not for their inferior intellect
Sat Sep 20 17:27:20 UTC 2014 <moriarty> actually socioeconomic experiments are nothing more than alchemy waiting for sciences to solidify itself; in like sense, macro policies are the precursors to BCIs which would be a far more effective method of tailoring welfare to the individual without any of the leakages present today
Sat Sep 20 17:25:52 UTC 2014 <moriarty> decimation, yep
Sat Sep 20 17:25:14 UTC 2014 <moriarty> mircea_popescu, i assume ironic humour, rather than any attempt to negate oneself ;)
Sat Sep 20 17:25:00 UTC 2014 <moriarty> mircea_popescu, i was just being euphemistic :P
Sat Sep 20 17:24:33 UTC 2014 <decimation> moriarty: it's true that such a scheme would be unworkable in mass democracy
Sat Sep 20 17:24:28 UTC 2014 <moriarty> lol that's the ancap bit of me speaking perhaps
Sat Sep 20 17:23:44 UTC 2014 <moriarty> decimation, by the time, that happens, it's a different political party
Sat Sep 20 17:23:36 UTC 2014 <moriarty> decimation, and so mininum wage or mandated employment will never work except that politically it's wonderful
Sat Sep 20 17:23:13 UTC 2014 <moriarty> decimation, long story short, it's back to square one after awhile
Sat Sep 20 17:23:03 UTC 2014 <moriarty> decimation, it is an endless regression to inflation, sticky wages eventually adjusting themselves, and formerly poor people made wealthy through minimum income now poor again rendering minimum income ineffetual
Sat Sep 20 17:22:26 UTC 2014 <moriarty> decimation, minimum wage or mandatory employment has the same effect
Sat Sep 20 17:22:21 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> moriarty contradictory is not ironic!
Sat Sep 20 17:21:49 UTC 2014 <moriarty> ;)