From: Michael Current <mcurrent-AT-picard.infonet.net>
Subject: Re: a short message
To: technology-AT-world.std.com
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 11:31:48 -0500 (CDT)


I think my fundamental problem with what you argue here is that your
belief that people ought to be free from coersion (which I, in the very
broadest sense, would agree with) has been confused with a belief that
people ARE free from coersion and can freely and easily makes the choices
that are best for them.  This is simply nonsense.  Everything from a loaded
gun that may be pointed at you to an empty wallet that determines what kind
of work under what sort of circumstances you will accept and when creates
a chasm between the idea and the reality.  And such formulations as "lazy
people" as as ideological as "ideological" gets.  Lazy often means - over-
whelmed with problems of life that the label does not personally face,
lack of education, lack of access to information, poverty, a social welfare
system that is insufficiently helpful at the same time that it is overly
rigid, etc., etc.

Michael

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