"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
news:3EDB5349.A270EA1B@yahoo.co.jp...
> Ed wrote:
>
> > "Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
> > news:3ED9D3C9.71FFBFEB@yahoo.co.jp...
> > > Ed wrote:
>
> > We need government to teach a guy how to use a shovel?
>
> Even after watching the man up close, you underestimate the man's job. He
got
> some education and training.

People have long been trained and educated without the need for a
government.

> Perhaps some sort of official qualifications.

No doubt.

> Labor laws also apply to him so people don't do such as pay him less than
> minimum wage, or work him unreasonably long or hard.

No, they don't apply to him. He is a contractor. He places a bid on a
particular job and hopes that he's managed to win a contract to do a
specified job for a specified amount. If it works out that a job takes ten
times longer than he thought, and this ends up paying less than a minimum
wage (is there a minimum wage in Japan?), then perhaps he'll learn from his
mistake.


>
> > > > > In your perfect world where people can be trusted to look after
> > > > themselves, who
> > > > > builds the national highway system and how is it paid for?
> >
> > There would be no national highway system in EdWorld. There would,
however,
> > be a rather extensive system of roads based on the German autobahn.
>
> Good. And if you can find private companies to build them all, who would
pay
> for the system and how is it organized or standardized?

Whoever wants the damned thing built would pay.

> > I think we'll use EdShekels.
>
> Why should any group of people outside your family agree EdShekels (and
not
> Taro Suzuki dinar with a crayon rendered smiley) are worth more than
toilet
> paper or firestarter for the ofuro? What is the exchange rate from
EdShekel to
> Suzuki smiley dinar?

Why should people believe that US currency is worth more than toilet paper?