[Foss-cafe] job sites don't work anymore ?

[Fred Smith]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 11:31, Pupeno wrote:
> Ok, they laws are not stupid, what is stupid is the concept of country, I 
> totally disagree with it, I consider it a very stupid concept that can only 
> live in the minds of very imaginative beings (you have to be very imaginative 
> to think and believe such a stupid concepts).

The problem is, of course, that no matter what you do you're going to
create divisions in some way.  Governments need to exist to provide
essential services.  Many of those services are geographically bound
(schools, police, fire departments, garbage collection, highway and road
maintenance.) While you can have a centralized education authority, for
example, you still need to have local schools with teachers, educational
tools, and administrators to make sure each school ran properly.  Then
you have regional offices, and larger regional offices and so on.  The
end result is that you've got a bunch of little divisions of political
power. Call those divisions states, countries or frobnars, but in the
end they're the same as what we've got now.  That's the whole concept of
a country, and there's no way you could have a government without these
divisions. Take a look at the US, for example. I live in a division of
the US called, NY, in a subdivision of NY called Rensselaer, which is
further subdivided into the town of Troy.  I pay taxes to each of those
governments, and since I work outside of the county I live in (in
Saratoga county), I pay taxes to the Saratoga county government as well.
(as a dis-incentive to keep me from living in the lower-cost Rensselaer
county and commuting into a job with a higher wage in Saratoga)
If tomorrow, everyone decided that they didn't like the idea of
countries, we'd re-organize for a bit and end up with the same general
problems.  People would live in the country-state (or frobnar) of mexico
because of the lower cost of living and commute to the
country-state/frobnar of USA, and all those US residents would complain
that Mexicans were taking their jobs at lower wages.  The USA government
would put restrictions on people commuting into the US first in the form
of high commuter taxes (as has been done in New York City when people
from New Jersey started taking jobs there), and later in the form of
restrictions like visas.  Then, people would complain about the entire
concept of frobnars because they live in a frobnar with high
unemployment and can't move to a different frobnar because of the
restrictions against doing so.

A better thing to do would be to push for the revitalization of your own
local economy (either by buying locally produced goods, starting a
business, or voting for the government to intervene and create jobs.
This third option, while opposed by many, seems to work very well at
kick-starting a dead economy.
-- 
Fred Smith <fps at dividedsky.net>
Divided Sky Internet
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