Minimum Security by Stephanie McMillan

Minimum Security

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  1. Radish

    Radish said, 6 months ago

    He has those same rights in a Plutocracy also.

  2. Stephanie McMillan

    Stephanie McMillan said, 6 months ago

    The point is power

    Organization has one purpose: to exercise collective power. For individuals, in all but the most rare and exceptional circumstances, the most effective way to assert and magnify power is by uniting with others to act. Collectively, people are able to assert power much greater than the sum of their individual efforts, and the more highly organized a section of people is, the more power they are able to exert.

    For example, at present, a relatively small section of people is setting the terms for all the rest of us, and we submit to their will. They are able to do it because they’re highly organized. They can wage war to conquer nations. They can impose and run a global economy. They can extract natural resources at extreme volume and speed, coerce others to work for them, and manufacture complex items like spy drones, bullet trains and synthetic drugs. As individuals, we can’t do any of those things. Nor can we, as individuals, stop others from doing these things.

  3. Ms. Ima

    Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago

    Or he could be a spoiled little brat demanding the world completely change to make it fit his narrow view of what he imagines the world should be. Of course, the rest of the world isn’t going to change because it is full of spoiled brats who won’t conform to the reality of what is instead of changing himself to find true happiness within his own thinking.

  4. Ms. Ima

    Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago

    What is wrong with life saving synthetic drugs? Who says a radical with a gun has the real answer to life? Talk about a small, small, small section of people trying to destroy everyone else’s quality of life. Besides, when the radicals take over everyone else’s freedom of speech ends.

  5. timrinaldo

    timrinaldo said, 6 months ago

    Let Bunnista come up with a great idea, convince a venture capitalist to sponsor him, and he’ll become rich as well. What, he isn’t smart or creative enough? Well, c’est la vie.

  6. peachyanddanny

    peachyanddanny said, 6 months ago

    And sleep under a bridge.

  7. Radish

    Radish said, 6 months ago

    Power comes out of the barrel of a gun.

  8. Bob

    Bob said, 6 months ago

    We tried oil. At twenty bucks a barrel it didn’t quite work.

  9. Night-Gaunt49

    Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago

    True. If we had stayed a confederation we wouldn’t be the Goliath astride the world today. Nor would we have so many long lasting huge corporations without all that govt subsidy.

  10. Ms. Ima

    Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago

    @Night-Gaunt49

    what is a ‘government subsidy’?

  11. Night-Gaunt49

    Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    Very low or nonexistent payback on govt loans to them. Or worse out right giving them our money and we don’t profit from it. Where were you when this has been going on for many decades?

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