On Apr 20, 2014, at 2:00 PM, David Shemano <[email protected]> wrote:
> You managed to contradict yourself in the space of one sentence. If all > human activity is coercive, which is the logical conclusion of the Hale > thesis, then coercive activity is neither “good” nor “bad” (which you appear > to recognize), so the fact that “wealth inequality presupposes coercion” > tells us nothing concerning whether wealth inequality (or slavery, as another > example) is good or bad, to be encouraged or discouraged (which you disagree > with by taking the position that wealth inequality is problematic because of > coercion). > > David Shemano > > =========== To be fair to Hale, his position is a bit more nuanced than that. Let’s reverse poles; is poverty harmful? Is poverty voluntary across the planet today? Do the labor contracts that have been developed over the last 75 years have something to do with that? Does the structure of market[s] competition have something to do with that? That is all. E.
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