[Ham] > What about [Pirsig's] statement that conservatives > (i.e., capitalists) "are just supporting their self-interests"? > Isn't what's "important", "desirable", or "interesting" > precisely what is meant by realizing Value? If so, nothing > describes it better than "self-interest". In other words, > Capitalism works BECAUSE it supports self-interest.
. Exactly. The same point could be made about "profit". What reason would there be for any undertaking whose result was not better than the effort put into it? . [ Andre] > Without inequality the [capitalist] system would not work. Andre] > Without inequality the [capitalist] system would not work. Exactly backwards. The free market system works best when the parties are economically equal & least well when one party is weak or desparate compared to the other. Craig Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
