What the government is supposed to is to protect the public interest. Where protecting free markets coincide with the public interest then the government should do just that.
Note that I agree with your sentiment in this instance. Just thought it was important to remind us that free markets are a means to an end, not and end in itself.
Has it occured to anyone that this hiearchy of basic needs may be more efficiently met with the help of technology!
I watched my friend and his family wait for 10 years for the "wait-your-turn / do-it-the-way-we-did-it-cuz-we-know-best" philosophy of hiearchical needs to provide the infrastructure of telephone communications to be built. To date, phone lines do not run into their home. Should he and his family sit and wait for this to happen, in spite of the fact that the new technology of mobile phones became affordable and available?
And why don't people get their collective heads out of their arses and realize that not every "developing" is rife starvation, dictators, illiteracy, slavery (as opposed to freedom), etc. And even when there is starvation, etc. it does not imply everyone is in the same condition. Might it be possible that the availability of new technologies might help them to help themselves?
We brag incessantly about how well Linux performs on older (read cheaper,more affordable) hardware. Well here's an oppurtunity where a lot of the open source efforts can directly affect technological capacity for a society to help themselves. No, they may not have the P4 or the athlon or (insert your hardware config here). But they do have the P3s and the P2s and the 486s and K6s and...
Technology is not the luxury of a society sufficiently "advanced" enough to employ it. It is an enabler that every human being may use to his or her betterment.
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What the government is supposed to is to protect the public interest. Where protecting free markets coincide with the public interest then the government should do just that. Note that I agree with your sentiment in this instance. Just thought it was important to remind us that free markets are a means to an end, not and end in itself.
Oh, oh so its all good since they're TELLING us they're doing it...
amazing how we satisfy ourselves with the crumbs from the massa's table...
Has it occured to anyone that this hiearchy of basic needs may be more efficiently met with the help of technology!
I watched my friend and his family wait for 10 years for the "wait-your-turn / do-it-the-way-we-did-it-cuz-we-know-best" philosophy of hiearchical needs to provide the infrastructure of telephone communications to be built. To date, phone lines do not run into their home. Should he and his family sit and wait for this to happen, in spite of the fact that the new technology of mobile phones became affordable and available?
And why don't people get their collective heads out of their arses and realize that not every "developing" is rife starvation, dictators, illiteracy, slavery (as opposed to freedom), etc. And even when there is starvation, etc. it does not imply everyone is in the same condition. Might it be possible that the availability of new technologies might help them to help themselves?
We brag incessantly about how well Linux performs on older (read cheaper,more affordable) hardware. Well here's an oppurtunity where a lot of the open source efforts can directly affect technological capacity for a society to help themselves. No, they may not have the P4 or the athlon or (insert your hardware config here). But they do have the P3s and the P2s and the 486s and K6s and...
Technology is not the luxury of a society sufficiently "advanced" enough to employ it. It is an enabler that every human being may use to his or her betterment.