Subject: [extropy-chat] don't worry unless you're getting paid for it

From: Ned Late <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 05:30:34 -0800 (PST)

If you're worrying for some foundation then it's
understandable, but don't worry yourself sick pro
bono.
I used to worry about what to eat, and got far sicker
from worrying about diet than anything else: "Let's
see, should I eat this fat-free cream cheese that
tastes like a mouse put into a blender, or perhaps the
alfalfa sprouts which taste like something from the
bottom of a rabbit's cage?".

> > Hey, it's a problem we're likely to have to deal
> with
> > sooner or later.  But maybe we can benefit from
> the
> > problem by using the fear of this to gain public
> > support.  ("Life extension will be invented. 
> Would
> > you rather the rich develop it just for
> themselves, or
> > would you rather it be developed out in the open
> where
> > everyone, including you, will benefit from it?")
> 
> This argument, though, is inherently unsupported by
> the facts. The rich
> generally get first crack at a technology, but they
> never hoard it to
> themselves. They generally pay for the costs of R&D
> for everyone else,
> as well as the infrastructure development costs.
> 
> Putting the technology development out in the open
> actually raises the
> barrier to the poor because it forces the poor to
> pay their fair share
> of the R&D and infrastructure that they normally
> would not have to
> incur.
> 
> 
> Mike Lorrey
> Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
> "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of
> human freedom.
> It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of
> slaves."
>                                       -William Pitt
> (1759-1806) 
> Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com
> 
> 
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