Bill Lear wrote:
You think that the word confers on the more efficient society (the
society more capable of developing the productive force of labor) some
sort of moral badge. It doesn't.
Well, I think it does, and I think
it's highly misleading to make the
mistake of most neoclassical
economists and to ignore the
obvious externalities. What were
the costs of the lives and liberties
of those trampled by the Nazis, or
the U.S., if references to the uber
bad guys makes you uncomfortable?
What is the cost to the rape
victim? Wouldn't including these
monumental costs make it immediately
obvious that those raping and
pillaging are extraordinarily
inefficient?
Bill,
When are you going to stop raping your mother?
To all others:
Please read my reply to Paul and Jim. I am not ignoring the
externalities. In fact, as I wrote before, I claim that the argument
of the tragedy of the commons is about the historical viability of
capitalism as a whole. Obviously, what may be external to capitalist
production in the narrow sense is not external to capitalism as a
whole.
