Re: [ox-en] Balancing need and Selbstentaltung by governance?

Christian Siefkes <[email protected]>
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Hi Stefan & all,

Stefan Merten wrote:
> The alternative IMHO is to create an explicit governance scheme where
> people are coerced to execute societal necessary tasks as part of
> their normal lifes. The big advantage of such an explicit governance
> scheme is that it is subject to political decisions. Contrary to blind
> automatisms as just outlined political decisions are able to take into
> account different situations of people. I think this is something
> useful to strive for.

That's not really a different approach from what I describe, but a part of
it. In my book, I refer to it as "flatrate model".

(I doubt that the term "coercion" is a happy or indeed appropriate one for
such situations, but your terminology is your decision.)

Best regards
        Christian

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