On 1/14/14 4:33 PM, glen wrote:
On 01/14/2014 02:07 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
Using a physical system metaphor (fluid flow), I believe in using
whatever mechanisms are available to encourage laminar flow between
highly disparate layers (wealth, opportunity, values being roughly
pressure, temperature, velocity vectors).. (top 1% vs homeless, first
world vs starving 3rd world) rather than to seek to *separate* the flows
and *engineer* very contrived connections (e.g. Social Service systems,
US AID, World Bank, etc.) between the two to try to relieve the
stresses.
It sounds like you're laying out an implicitly multi-scale government
technique.
No, I'm proposing a *social* change, not a governmental or political one.
If so, that would be in direct opposition to something like
"trickle-down", which (I assume) relies upon some sort of assumed
natural "physics" of economics. A managed -- even if only encouraging
-- coupling between the various categories would fall directly into a
tax-and-spend liberal view of good government. A laissez faire
perspective would suggest no need to pay it forward or to systemically
encourage paying it forward.
Think of a recursive hierarchy of potlatches...
The interesting part of your proposal would lie in discovering when
government managed couplings were needed and when they weren't.
If people, collectively, in large numbers, could adopt the principle,
the only help from the government required would be to "get out of the
way"... maybe starting with "gift tax" repeal?
It really doesn't have any chance of success except maybe within the
context of a "day after next" Utopian(/Dystopian) Unicorn Fart of a
SciFi wanna be story.
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