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Re:Techies Are the New Puritans by aaronem on Thursday December 12, 2013 @02:29PM (#6896480)
Philosophical traditions, is it? How about "By the sweat of thy brow shalt thou earn thy daily bread"? And, while I'm at it, "The poor will always be with you"?
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Re:Techies Are the New Puritans by gaius on Thursday December 12, 2013 @02:33PM (#6896510)
And Marx wrote "from each according to his ability" before "to each according to his need". How did non-contributors fare in Marxists states? Well they were sent to forced labour camps where they worked or they starved.
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Re:Techies Are the New Puritans by aaronem on Thursday December 12, 2013 @03:09PM (#6896821)
I tend to consider the Soviet experiment a subset of the general Progressive one, which sheds no complimentary light on the latter -- but, for those who cleave to it, "no true Scotsman" seems spackle enough to cover the cracks.
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