Quoting Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> [Platt to Arlo]
> Wrong. The assumptions of capitalism in the context you present are: 1)
> People labor to improve the quality of life, and 2) Those who amass wealth
> provide the capital required to improve the quality of life.
> 
> [Case]
> What Arlo is talking about and you are ignoring is the value of public
> capital. That is the infrastructure that We the People hold in common such
> as public lands, highways, electromagnetic spectrum, public facilities etc.
> etc. These too are wealth. You also repeatedly demean the value of public
> service which constitutes a sizable proportion of the work force.

Electromagnetic spectrum? Like a highway? Seems to me you left out a couple of
steps between the former and the latter, the first step being the creation of
wealth so it can be taxed to build a highway. (Don’t think you’ll gain much
revenue from taxing electromagnetism.) Demean the value of public service? I
guess you missed my positive comments about the police and military.



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