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Originally Posted by NeonSamurai
But your structuring of sentences can be odd at times, and you sometimes make incorrect use of words.
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Not to mention my many typos!
I'm typing too fast, and then am too lazy to correct them.
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Lastly a small comment on socialism. Socialism is not a bad form of government, it is one of the oldest forms we have. The problem though is that it only works properly on the microscopic scale, in groups of around 50 people or less. Tribal society is a type of socialistic structure. The members of the tribe help one another to survive, and no members have major power over other members. All members contribute, and when a member is unable to, the rest of the band pulls together to help that individual. What is important to understand though, is that corruption does not happen very easily at that scale. Slackers/abusers are quickly found out and ejected from the society, and people cannot easily be greedy and take too much with out getting caught. Unfortunatly though, once you hit a certain population, where people do not know everyone in the community, corruption becomes a real problem.
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Remarkable, becasue I say much the same about democratic principles, I said repeatedly they only work on local (=low, small) levels, and communities of limited size. You hear me, Lance?
Maybe one should include the functionality of capitalistic market principles to be community-size-dependent as well.
What have all these assessements in common? Leave the governing, the owing, the entrepreneurs the space to bend rules that are to their subjective disadvantage but in favour of the community, and the probability increases they will do that. Allow the elite to avoid being affected by the consequences of their governing decisions, and they are more likely to act in favour of their interests even if it is at the cost of the interest of the community. the winner in this confrontation of onterests often is the one being richer than the other, which makes him more powerful (to form the rules to his liking, or to walk around them and get away with it), and this "space", the opportunity to evade, is due to the size of the community, and it's regulation mechanisms having become too complex.
I am currently putting together an essay adressing some of these things, amongst others, a bit in the way what you said regarding yourself taking 2-3 hours for a post. Just that it is not only 2-3 hours, but so far occasional work over 2-3 days.
Means: I'll be back at this in the near future. Maybe not exactly this, but you'll recognise some familiar points.