Steve Kurtz
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 13:39:47 -0800
Hi Douglas & all, Fear not, you're not alone. As far as I could figure out from 2 years of reading Wes Burt's 'solution' posts, a re-distribution or tithing of a greater % of national income is his key. I love to skim his posts now, looking for new (to me) historic references, as my background in history is rather shallow. The biblical references I ignore as I do all religious dogma. I've yet to convince Wes that natural wealth(the pie)has been shrinking as the human population has QUADRUPLED in 99 years. Equal slices of an insufficient pie result in maximum mortality and suffering. The cornucopian fallacy denies natural limits and the value (instrumental or intrinsic, take your choice) of biodiversity. Credits/tokens provide relative power to acquire/consume slices of the pie; they provide no sustenance, shelter,...themselves. Changing %s creates no new wealth. As I recently posted, it can accelerate consumption and misery in the future. Steve