10-Year Plan

--- In spacesettlers@y..., "Arthur P. Smith" wrote:

> > > >>My point: despite the fervent wishes of many, the free market
> > isn't
> > > >>going to get us there all by itself.
> >
> > The free market will get there itself, if government gets the
hell
> > out of the way.
>
> Funny, there doesn't seem to be much business investment in
> the world's anarchies... (Liberia, Ivory Coast, Congo, Colombia,
> Afghanistan, etc...) In truth there's no such thing as a free
> market independent of government regulation. And there is, so far,
> no such market for space development.
>
> Arthur

I couldn't stop chuckling :) Razor sharp wit you have there.
Insightful too.

You know, now that I think about it, there are lots of guns there
too. Nothing stopping them from instituting "natural justice" and
other such concepts. How come the anti-government types aren't
rushing there? Hmm. :)