Why do we have publicly funded courts, but almost no publicly funded journalism? Don't we want all tools for fighting corruption we can get?
@irvingruan sure, I'm all for the post-scarcity utopia where volunteer labor is at all something we can rely on 
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@paulbaumgart Heh. This actually was a common practice even during the Roman Republic! George Washington garnered more respect b/c of it. -
@irvingruan yeah, but you can't really draw analogies too closely with the slave-owning elite of past eras - 4 more replies
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