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Subject: Re: Is money power?
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Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 21:45:25 EDT
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In article kfl%mx.lcs.mit.edu@mc.lcs.mit.edu writes:
>  If you still insist that money is coercive power, please give an
>example of its coercive use.

Simple.  I am a wealthy and unscrupulous person.  I want you to do
some action X which you don't want to do.  I say "Keith, do it or I
will make your life very unpleasant."  I then start using my money to:

    1)  Buy all the land abutting your house and installing garbage
        dumps (remember, no zoning laws in Libertaria).

    2)  Buy your company and get you fired.

    3)  Buy your bank and make them foreclose on your mortgage (easy
        enough to do, just wait until you're ONE DAY late and it's
        legal).

    4)  Buy all the local stores and instruct the help to refuse to
        serve you (remember, no anti-discrimination laws in
        Libertaria).

    5)  Pay your eighteen year old daughter big bucks and free cocaine
        to become a prostitute (no drug or prostitution laws in
        Libertaria).

    6)  Do the same thing to your friends and relatives...

etc. etc.
-- 
Larry Campbell                         The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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