Quote:
Originally Posted by piece-itpete
Perhaps I'm not being clear - how can the government, say, tell me what to plant or produce, or where I can live or how much a house I can have, and I still be a free man?
Pete
|
So you're more of a free man when a corporation is telling you those things?
If you're a farmer, are you a free man when bees cross-pollinate your crops with patented pollen, and you have to pay for something you did not ask for? Are you a free man when an insurance company tells you what doctor you can see, or what brand of medication you can use? Are you a free man when a company tells you to move or go broke? Are you a free man when the air and water in you neighborhood have become so polluted you are sick?
How do you assume that the government will not let you change jobs or locations simply because the means of production have been dedicated to the public good?
Regards,
D-Ray