Sujet : Re: OT ; Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : bowman (at) *nospam* montana.com (rbowman)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 02. Oct 2024, 23:33:49
Autres entêtes
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On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 18:11:06 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
I always like Heinlein's qualified democracy. You got a vote for
education, a vote for owning your own house, a vote for being a parent
and a vote for having served in the army. Something like that.
Or if you were a junked up piece of trash on social security, you didn't
get a vote at all.
That works. The US sort of started out that way. The problem with
democracy, or most forms of government for that matter, is it doesn't
scale well.
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