Things Heard: e173v4
Thursday, May 19th, 2011 at
8:35 am
Good morning. Bleah. Wake up 10 minutes late. Leave 15 minutes late. Get to work and dressed 10 minutes late. Get call, youngest missed bus and mom’s car didn’t start. Finally … back to work. Whaz next?
- Batteries, the sun, and the expeditionary Marine.
- Slavery, or is it a straw argument. If you’re free to leave, you’re not a slave, Jason.
- Wealth, education, and denomination.
- A pointed question for the practices of teacher wage/pension construction.
- Safety nets and India.
- Of personhood.
- The billion/day discrepency.
- A little levity.
- Yeah, and used books and used cars really cut into book and car retail sales.
- Editorial practice and the White House.
- Liberal/Conservative dialog in academia … how not to do it right.
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If you can leave plantation A, but only to go to plantation B, then you’re still a slave. Doesn’t matter whether you can exit.
We face a similar situation with the governments of the world. This is not because they actually do enslave us (I think the claim is vastly, absurdly overstated, as you’d know if you’d read my post). It’s because there is relatively little difference between them on taxes and individual liberties.
To clarify: I’m speaking of the liberal democratic world, not Zimbabwe, North Korea, and similar. The incentive to leave those places is huge, but that’s also why their governments do not permit it.
Jason,
I’d disagree about the little difference claim. I think there are significant differences in the amounts of social and economic freedoms in different countries or regions (speaking of the liberal democratic world).
What I think you’re more likely saying is that the differences in moving are low compared to the high personal cost of relocating to another country.