"Opposites" are treacherous, too. Sometimes even more so. The opposite of
the proverbial lump-of-labor fallacy ("the theory of compensation as
regards the workpeople displaced by machinery") is *also* a fallacy and, in
fact, is the more pernicious fallacy because there are people (economists)
who actually, fervently believe in it.

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Julio Huato <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> True in principle.  But how many of us here believe that the best way
> to elicit social progress on environmental matters is by becoming more
> individually wasteful or polluting?
>
>

-- 
Cheers,

Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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