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Thinking bigly, I would redesign the quality of the people who use the internet. Create a society in which people find pornography boring and get-rich-quick shortcuts uninteresting, [...] This sort of reminds me of Bertold Brecht's remarks after a fracas between the old East German government and its citizens. Even though he supported socialism, he could still see government stupidity quite clearly: "The government should dissolve the people and elect another." The one thing you can be assured of is that you aren't going to change human nature, and any improvement predicated on improving the populace generally will fare as well as any product that people *should* want to buy ... I.e., it will be a total failure. That sounds very simple, but I can assure you that it is hard to rise above the pride of despising the masses who want different (and less refined) things than one wants one's self. Dale
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