On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote:
Now you won't let me out of this discussion! ;-) > If the force that narrows the gap (between rich and poor, etc) is applied > from without of the system (e.g. by the governmental regulation) then you > just contradicted yourself or came across as quite naive, and so on. Well, maybe I am naive. However history certainly shows us that in a corporate capitalist system (I am distinguishing that from a pure capitalist system as described by Adam Smith) the rich/poor gap will always increase and society's most vulnerable will be left to fall between the cracks. The only way these things will change will be through government intervention. Do you really think that corporations will self-regulate or that eventually the infamous "unseen hand" will decide to lift the poor out of the gutter and provide health care for those with no money? And you say I'm naive? ;-) > > Guys, practice is million-fold more complex than theory, so will you please > stop theorizing? :-) Practice is only as complicated as we make it or allow it to be. Or am I being naive again? ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
