We are
awash in goods (or as you call it crap). Huge effort is spent on clearing
the shelves of this crap and getting people to buy more so that more can be
produced and sold. This is the way income is created and
distributed. With so much effort by governments and advertising and
marketing etc., to move products it seems that yes the production problem has
been solved.
arthur
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Weick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 8:41 AM
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Subject: Re: [Futurework] http://www.glaesernemanufaktur.de/I don't think we've solved the production problem. One reason for our inequitable distribution of income is that we use our scarce resources to produce a lot of crap. A lot of people make a lot of money producing crap. Others keep them rich and themselves poor by buying it.Ed
----- Original Message -----From: "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 2:00 AMSubject: RE: [Futurework] http://www.glaesernemanufaktur.de/> Arthur,
>
> Wouldn't you know it?
>
> You almost repeated - word for word - what Henry George said in
> 1878.
>
> Great minds think alike!
>
> It's the reason why Classical Political Economy is described as
> "The Science that deals with the Nature, the Production, and the
> Distribution of Wealth.
>
> That "Distribution" bit is the essence of Political Economy.
> Would that modern economists would start thinking about why the
> distribution is so unfair, instead of devising ways to patch the
> system by taking from the rich and giving to the poor.
>
> Harry
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> We have "solved" the production problem but can't seem to deal
> with the issue of distribution.
>
> Arthur
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harry Pollard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 5:15 PM
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>
> Brad,
>
> We are discussing these problems in a society where the power to
> produce has reached unbelievable proportions (After many have
> been thrown out of work, the industries they left behind are
> actually producing more. Productivity hasn't fallen even though
> there are far fewer workers employed.)
>
> Why these "problems"?
>
> Harry
>
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