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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: OT ; Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 18:07:29 -0700
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 18:11:06 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 
>> I always like Heinlein's qualified democracy. You got a vote for
>> education,  a vote for owning your own house, a vote for being  a parent
>> and a vote for having served in the army. Something like that.
>> 
>> Or if you were a junked up piece of trash on social security, you didn't
>> get a vote at all.
> 
> That works. The US sort of started out that way. The problem with 
> democracy, or most forms of government for that matter, is it doesn't 
> scale well. 
> 

Except for those of us who are junked up pieces of trash on social security

-- 
Pete