Re: is Debian an anarchist organization/project?
Hi,
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:50:55AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> Actually I wouldn't mind if votes were directly determined by dollars.
> If for example you vote according to your taxes, someone who pays
> twice the tax gets twice the vote.
>
> However the influence that rich people and corporations have far
> exceeds that.
Yes, but your system would still mean you're ruled by the people that
are richest. I.e. you reward the people that are in it for the power
*and* the money, with extra power. I don't think such a mechanism puts
the right people in charge.
> > > If "publically funded" means "government funded" then yes I agree that
> > > can work (but that goes against the anarchist philosophy).
> >
> > That's what I meant. And yes, the difference with anarchist philosophy
> > is that they /do/ assume that the funding by the people that are
> > interested is enough. I think they underestimate the effect of "I'll
> > only pay if my neighbor pays too", which only a government can leverage.
>
> Governments don't even leverage that. They just say "we do things you
> like and we decided that your share of the payment is $X, pay now or
> go to jail", then you pay.
That's how they enforce the decision of the 51 % to make the 49 % pay
too.
If the government does what it likes but is not immediately sent home by
the representatives of the people, or the representatives are re-elected
even after they fail to do so, then apparently people didn't have much
of a problem with the decisions of the government.
Of course you live in a non-functional democracy, then taxing becomes more
and more like organized robbery, for sure.
Cheers,
Emile.
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