tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post331899885362220648..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Steve Wozniak Laments Creating The Tools That Government Uses To Spy On UsRobert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-43466607120539219042013-06-21T17:50:49.543-04:002013-06-21T17:50:49.543-04:00Everywhere, all humans live under rulers. It is a...Everywhere, all humans live under rulers. It is a feature of all existent and past human societies.<br /><br />The rulers of the People's republic have no constitution or vote to rest their legitimacy on but they continue to rule. I doubt if most subjects think the various kings in the middle east have some sort of Divine charge. Many places with democracy, it is one vote, one time. Even douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10269205712944353490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-29891863351984227662013-06-21T17:30:02.494-04:002013-06-21T17:30:02.494-04:00“…Wozniak should not feel guilty at all…”
I agree...“…Wozniak should not feel guilty at all…”<br /><br />I agree – technology that makes lives easier also makes lives easier to be controlled. This has been true in the past, and will be true in the future. It is nothing for the technologist to apologize for. <br /><br />The technologists that owe an apology – and in fact should cease and desist by withdrawing their services – are those that are bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-87761692942875936882013-06-21T16:46:29.754-04:002013-06-21T16:46:29.754-04:00Libertarians are not critical of US Constitution, ...Libertarians are not critical of US Constitution, but of the making of fetish out of this document. No written law is going to constrain those who usurped the monopoly on interpreting and enforcing it.<br /><br />So Constitution is a nice symbol, but that's it. It has no legitimacy, and certainly does not give legitimacy to the State, no matter what the masses are taught to think. It can be Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-7046193579841095432013-06-21T13:30:51.780-04:002013-06-21T13:30:51.780-04:00I can't understand why libertarians are so cri...I can't understand why libertarians are so critical of the US Constitution. By any objective standard, Greek Athens in the golden age, the early Roman Republic, a period of limited Monarchy in Great Briton and the first 150 years of the American Republic stand out as shining stars in the history of mankind with respect to individual liberty, economic liberty, and self direction by the commondouglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10269205712944353490noreply@blogger.com