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The Free Drone Republic - In Their Own Words (continued)
"Now, suppose you were to offer me the choice between a thousand Morganic dollars and a tractor. A lot of people would take the money, right? That, of course, is the wrong choice. Once the money is gone, you've just exchanged it for possessions which you probably don't know how to use, and you really have the same amount of knowledge and wealth as before.
"What if you took the tractor? You could use it to plow your fields. Then you would plant crops there. Once the crops grew you would sell them. Once you sold them you would use the money to buy a better tractor, or seedlings for higher-priced crops, or more sophisticated farm equipment. You repeat the process, each time diversifying and expanding your operations, until one day you own the darn tractor company.
"If you understand this, you understand the most fundamental principle of the free market. That is why capitalism is great: because any man with enough sense to take the tractor can, and probably will, make it."
-- David Younger, public lecture
Domai: "I can't believe what I'm hearing. This Younger character stirs up trouble and foments insurrection against the government."
Santos: "The way you do?"
-- Part of an Interim Council debate between Foreman Domai and General Charlie Santos
"Dictatorship is a relative term. When male lions inherit a pride, they kill the offspring of their predecessor. From the lion's point of view, he is protecting his livelihood. From yours, he is an evil dictator and deserves to be isolated and destroyed."
-- Brian Deschamps, second leader of the New Republic Party, in response to a Peacekeeper NGO report that ranked the Drone Republic "extremely low" in matters of personal freedoms
"For a nation that includes the words 'free' and 'republic' in its name, shocking abuses are found in frightening proportions. Reports persist of a prison camp in the northern reaches of Ophelia where inmates are subjected to neurochemical therapy and mind control experiments. Officials of the former Domai government allege that the New Republic Party was responsible for the deaths of up to 10,000 of its supporters over a period of two years - after the war ended."
-- From the Crystal Dove Organization's archives. Records show that this passage and others caused consternation in the Republic and prompted Brian Deschamps' controversial response.
"Now, suppose you were to offer me the choice between a thousand Morganic dollars and a tractor. A lot of people would take the money, right? That, of course, is the wrong choice. Once the money is gone, you've just exchanged it for possessions which you probably don't know how to use, and you really have the same amount of knowledge and wealth as before.
"What if you took the tractor? You could use it to plow your fields. Then you would plant crops there. Once the crops grew you would sell them. Once you sold them you would use the money to buy a better tractor, or seedlings for higher-priced crops, or more sophisticated farm equipment. You repeat the process, each time diversifying and expanding your operations, until one day you own the darn tractor company.
"If you understand this, you understand the most fundamental principle of the free market. That is why capitalism is great: because any man with enough sense to take the tractor can, and probably will, make it."
-- David Younger, public lecture
Domai: "I can't believe what I'm hearing. This Younger character stirs up trouble and foments insurrection against the government."
Santos: "The way you do?"
-- Part of an Interim Council debate between Foreman Domai and General Charlie Santos
"Dictatorship is a relative term. When male lions inherit a pride, they kill the offspring of their predecessor. From the lion's point of view, he is protecting his livelihood. From yours, he is an evil dictator and deserves to be isolated and destroyed."
-- Brian Deschamps, second leader of the New Republic Party, in response to a Peacekeeper NGO report that ranked the Drone Republic "extremely low" in matters of personal freedoms
"For a nation that includes the words 'free' and 'republic' in its name, shocking abuses are found in frightening proportions. Reports persist of a prison camp in the northern reaches of Ophelia where inmates are subjected to neurochemical therapy and mind control experiments. Officials of the former Domai government allege that the New Republic Party was responsible for the deaths of up to 10,000 of its supporters over a period of two years - after the war ended."
-- From the Crystal Dove Organization's archives. Records show that this passage and others caused consternation in the Republic and prompted Brian Deschamps' controversial response.
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