Arthur, I guess I just don't get it. What "golden goose"? What "case after case? Please explain to me how "the market...harness(es) greed". In what cases do you grant that the state running things does work? (Just trying to establish a base-line of agreement.) And, lastly, do you see any possibly of anything other than "the market" or "the state"?
Bruce Leier > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 7:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: More Porkie Pies? > > Ahhh, if it were only that simple. Nationalization seemed to be the answer. > But a takeover of private assets led to killing the "golden goose" in case > after case. The market seems to be the way to harness greed and turn it > into productivity. When the state runs things " for the people" , -- in > most cases-- it doesn't work. > > arthur cordell > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 6:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: More Porkie Pies? > > > On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Arthur Cordell wrote: > > That is the challenge. How to distribute the incredible wealth of our > > economy. The communists/socialists had an ideology for a time when goods > > could potentially be free, but had no viable economic system to get to > that > > state. The "capitalists" seem to have solved the production problem but > > have no ideology of what to do next, of how to distribute goods when they > > are plentiful. > > Well, if it's that simple, why not "serialize" the two?: > First let capitalism solve the production problem (=provide the viable > economic system that the socialists lacked), and then let the socialists > tell them how to distribute goods when they are plentiful (=the ideology > of what to do next that the capitalists lacked). > > ;-) > Chris
