[Platt] Thanks for the sixth grade civics lesson. However, you neglected to make a distinction between voluntary and involuntary redistribution of wealth. You also failed to acknowledge that wealth must be created before it can be distributed. Thanks anyway.
[Case] Platt, I would not have offers such a refresher if you had not demonstrated such a crying need for it. You almost always use the terms redistribution of wealth in the sense that this is done involuntarily. It most certainly is not. Without a method of redistributing wealth there would be no economics at all. Capitalism is a system for redistributing wealth just as communism is a system for producing wealth. Both systems employ the coercive power of government to enforce their policies. It is the application of force that is the problem not the specifics of the system. Pirsig claims communism is a higher moral code than capitalism. What he sees as the failure of socialist systems to allow for the action of DQ is really a matter of trying to exercise too much force and control in the economy. Capitalism is nothing more that abstract Darwinism. But you can see the effects of trying to force even so noble an ideal as Liberty upon people at gun point. The more force you apply the more resistance results. Resistance produces the need for more force. The net result is the spiral of violence and the shrill cry that we are turning the corner, there is light at the end of the tunnel. And always the body count rises higher and higher. 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/
