On 1/9/14, 2:18 PM, glen wrote:
You not only have to be creative and _useful_. You also have to be
willing to kick @ss and TAKE your share ... even if you sometimes take
too much or too little.
This liberal's observation is that these are ordinary (i.e. boring) but
not universal capabilities. Many people can develop these skills,
especially with the right resources at the right time in their life.
But if one has the goal of teasing out the freakish talents from the
population, a platform is needed to do it -- a safety net. That means
taking at scale (i.e. taxing) and filling in the gaps around those that
don't fit immediately within the economy & society where they find
themselves. If one buy that there is anything of value to subjective
life integrated over the population (other than sanctity), then it is
crucial to the social & economic organism to give each instance a rich,
unstructured, environment to grow. There are assumptions and
preferences in this world view.
Marcus
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