Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
>
>>However, I
>>don't think free-riding is one of the more prominent
>>problems we have,
>
>It's hard to know what planet you live on. I think it's absolutely 
>pervasive
>in almost every human society, and this is empirically observable. Moreover
>it is to be expected: most people would rather have others do the hard 
>stuff
>and want to make sure taht they get theirs. Won't that be true under
>anarchism?

Stare decisis trumps all, eh?  This seems a defeatist view of the human 
prospect.  Basically, you're saying that the Iron Law of Oligarchy *is* an 
iron law -- that there will always be corrupt, self-serving elites that 
breed widespread social cyncism and encourage less-fortunates to try to game 
the system themselves.  I think human social character is more mutable than 
that -- that a combination of material factors (technological advance) and 
idealistic ones (cultivation of some sort of transcendental awareness) could 
make labor in general less onerous and encourage people to share willingly 
in doing unpleasant but necessary work that benefits all.

Carl

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