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War is the health of the state.

Since the dawn of organized coercion, that is the only incentive the power elite have ever needed to go to war.

While war is always the health of the state, it is only good for the economy if it is in a very poor state to begin with. Such as the USSR and US before WWII.

ok. why don't you do it? Who the hell is going to risk resources setting up a company that may or may not go bankrupt, and doesn't even have the incentive of making money at the end of the day.

Strangely, some people have what they call "values" that make them want to do things *without* getting rewarded with money or power. Of course, we are all "educated" to think that people are by nature unfeeling, endlessly consumptive robots, but that's not necessarily the case. Even if ESR tells you it is. He's wrong. The Spanish Revolution is a great existence proof.

If you're interested in this, check out his paper about anarchism and free software.

I'd like to hear more of his thoughts in this direction, though. Does he actually advocate workers' self-management in all things, or just in software?

How about a real cashless society?

My CS prof didn't own a car because he felt the US auto industry had a history of sabotaging public transport.

A quick Google search revealed this:

Behind the car is a huge and powerful car industry. In the US from the 1930s to the 1950s General Motors and other automobile manufactures bought 90% of the tram networks in 45 US cities. These were then dismantled and replaced by busses (which were manufactured by the car companies). In 1991 the auto industry in the USA spent 10 million dollars defeating legislation aimed at tougher fuel efficiency standards. The only solution often being offered is to build more roads, it's a solution that benefits industry not people. More roads into the countryside surrounding cities, leads to the growth of suburbs, which leads to more traffic (and calls for more roads). The solution leads to more problems, and it also leads to great wealth for the developers who build the suburbs and those who own the land they are built on.

Your a troll at least post a to back up your argument

like this one or this one that knock you down

Lets see, the US has a mild terrorist? attach, some buildings collapsed because they where build on the cheap. and forget about the pentigon i might be a ligitimate millarty target.

So the US kicked ten-tones out of shit agains a muslim country... the US has a worse track record than anyone else.

I'm not shaving today, to remember the muslims that got killed