Brad wrote:
Brad, old lad, stop misconstruing things. The cost is war in Korea among other things as the US is thought to be a paper tiger.Harry Pollard wrote:Keith,
As I said, I think that war is now inevitable (short of Saddam backing down) for the US can no longer afford not to go to war.
[snip]Can we put a dollar figure on that? What's the "net"? Can we outsource it? Can we get a big investment back to float a stock offering for it?
I'll try again, thereby showing my almost implausible patience and perhaps resignation.I sincerely believe that the free market ends where serious issues of life and death begin. The free market is a luxury we can afford only when nothing important is going on. That means that the unemployed and the overworked but underpaid are enjoying paradise.
The free market is no more than allowing people to trade freely. If you are against it, you are allowing politicians to tell us how we should behave - and you know how they behave.
Again, this is nonsense. There is no such thing as a "coordinated social intelligence". There are only individual intelligences.There are, of course, other luxuries we could choose instead, like coordinated social intelligence minimizing labor time and maximizing leisure like to some extent they seem to do in the old Europe . . .
We now have such an incredible power to produce that we can be vastly inefficient and still be able to live well.
Why this "incredible power to produce" doesn't translate into an absence of poverty is something that must be thought about. However, thinking about such things seems to be remarkably absent in our uncoordinated social intelligence.
Harry
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