Re: [luv-talk] What rights do refugees have under the 1951 convention?

Alex Hutton wrote:

In a welfare state, wealth is redistributed. This is only possible if more money is put in than is taken out. More must be put in than is taken out, rather than an equivalent amount, because the welfare state is intrinsically inefficient; so it must take from us more than it gives to us. [...]

So you want to dismantle "the welfare state" because it is lossy. Presumably you avoid air conditioners for the same reason? Going further, I guess you must be a perfectly spherical, of uniform density, in an absolute vacuum, &c. I wonder how you manage to communicate with the real world without increasing entropy...