On 1/9/14, 3:51 PM, glen wrote:
In other words, a safety net doesn't go far enough. If all we're going
to do is provide a safety net, then we may as well do nothing at all.
And why one might have the contingency of nudging interesting folks
towards mercenary instincts, if there is reason to think they haven't
found them on their own.
But in any case, the scope of unrealized potential is one that I think
the left and right estimate very differently. The left aims for
growing productivity across the population (a hypothesis that it is
virtually automatic with enough time and energy to get a ROI) while the
right aims for exploitation of predictable, finite, or controlled
resources (petroleum, slaves / minimum wage employees, etc.).
Marcus
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