but let's realize that (during the pandemic) governments had to do SOMETHING.
Originally posted by Sid Belzberg
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You are saying "the governments" created the covid virus .... really? I've heard of the Wuhan lab theory and the Chinese wet market theory and the U.S. military theory but not a theory that says all the world governments created the virus (deliberately, I would have to assume).
I just read today that Denmark is the nation that trusts its government more than any other nation. And as a result, Denmark has now gone almost totally cashless. The people trust that if something breaks the digital payments system, the government will save them. That simply could NOT happen here, and definitely not in USA. Interestingly, as a result of going cashless, Denmark now has for the past year 0 bank robberies. I am not in favor of cashless economy, in fact I am deadset against it, because I believe such a level of trust is NOT good. So no Sid, I am not saying I totally trust government. Not at all. In fact, if indeed Denmark had 0 bank robberies in the past year, I would bet that they had a huge INCREASE in cyberattacks and ransomware attacks and similar things. They have, I wold bet, only traded one problem for another (and worse) problem.
What I have been saying is that government is NECESSARY to do things that entrepreneurs won't do but still need done, and lawyers are also necessary to figure out how to apply regulations that MUST be maintained. Dilip doesn't agree, he believes anyone can become an entrepreneur and should be free of government regulation in the process. That would just not work at all, as the dot com crash of 2000 proved to us. Dilip only believes in one regulation, "fair competition" which he leaves undefined and says judges and police will enforce (police state). So the other reason we need lawyers is to fight for the oppressed against the tyranny of such a police state.
I've said it before in this thread and here it is again: what we have now, the balancing act between moderately right-wing and moderately left-wing administrations of government, is the best we can hope for. Any swing to the extreme left or extreme right will be bad, as it always has been.
I would also say that so far, I don't think Bob A.'s Democratic Marxism is an extreme swing to the left. I seem to remember reading in my younger days about the Greek city states, which sounds a lot like Bob A's local political units. It didn't work too well for Greece as I seem to recall, but I could be mistaken. Did they get invaded and found themselves unable to act in a cohesive manner in self-defence because they had ceded away central authority? I'm having some kind of a flashback to reading about that, years ago.
Bob A, maybe you can compare your DM with the Greek idea of city states and comment on what entailed for the Greeks during that time (the time of Plato and Socrates, I believe).
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