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- From: tomk@netcom.com (Thomas H. Kunich)
- Subject: Re: Techno-Something-Or-Other
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 01:11:16 GMT
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- I don't think we need to invent new buzz words and then attempt
- to breath some sort of ulterior motives into them. Socialism
- is socialism, regardless of whether it is being exercised in the
- technical arena or the social welfare arena.
-
- Socialism breeds bureaucracy and bureaucracy is the cause of much
- of the idiotic red-tape and hidden expense of government.
-
- On the other hand: Some projects are so large that it requires
- funding from sources larger than available from any private sector
- source. And bureaucracy has the positive virtue of decreasing the
- rate of change -- this is generally called conservatism and is
- generally viewed as preferable to radical liberalism. Bureaucracy
- also _tends_ to avoid the hidden agendas of private sector financial
- sources to find profits at the costs of safety and intelligent
- use of resources.
-
- Now I don't attempt to say that there isn't a terrible price to pay
- for bureaucracy run amuck as we now have it. But there definitely is
- a good and proper place for it.
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