Hi Tom,
Sitting here with a computer that more resembles a "Hot
Rod" and that makes me very sorry not to have taken the
auto mechanics course that my mother insisted upon and
I resisted. Sitting here with a machine that is not made
by a big monopoly or with a decent warrenty. A machine
that the
Thank you Thomas for thoughtfully restating some of the questions that I
have tried to ask during my three years on this list. Attention to the
quality and durability of human societies demands that jobs/work not be
bound by traditional economic definitions.
Steve
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Thomas Lunde:
But
Brad, I too suspect that we are closer on these issues then
it seems. Rather a matter of syllabic emphasis. Your's is
more academic with mine seeming at least to be more from
the practical practice. I don't appoint a hierarchy to either
nor do I mean to say that I'm not academic or you are
impr
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The following lengthy article, I think is very impo
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> > Thomas:
> >
> > ... it is the very business class, those
> > who, as Belloc identifies as the small minority who control the
Greetings Thomas & all,
Thomas Lunde wrote:
> There are but three social arrangements which can replace capitalism;
> slavery, socialism, and property.
>
> I may imagine a mixture of any two of these three or of all the three, but
> each is a dominant type, and from the very nature of the prob
> The problem turns, remember, upon the control of the means of production.
> Capitalism means that this control is vested in the hands of few, while
> political freedom is the appanage of all. It this anomaly cannot endure,
> from its insecurity and from its own contradiction with its presumed m
This is a utopia if based on capitalist
economics. (Or have I already mentioned this?)
Welfare capitalism was tried, and when the upswing
collapsed, it failed. Even the richest states are in debt,
even when they only spend pitifully small percentages
on welfare.
Eva
> Thomas:
>
> One of thin
> A second point that I think needs emphasis, is that in a world where
> reading literacy is not universal and where the media is literally owned
> by a few with their own agenda, we would find it very difficult to
> convince anyone but each other of our convictions. To do so, we would
> have to
To: Serious reformers on several mail lists.
Hi Folks,
In a 99-07-07 series of five insightful posts to list
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Lunde writes in the fifth post:
>> "What to me is surprising is the failure to recognize that the natural
structure of capitalism is towards monopoly. Mono
Just seeking some clarification here.
Thomas Lunde wrote:
> >From The Servile State Page 122
>
> Now there is only one alternative to freedom, which is the negation of it.
> Either a man is free to work and not to work as he pleases, or he may be
> liable to a legal compulsion to work, backed
Thomas:
I do apoligize for harping on the subject of slavery and the posting of
quotes from the book, The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc, but reality just
keeps supplying me with proof of his thesis. The lengthy article posted
below by Ian Ritchie is just such a proof.
>From The Servile State
What to me is surprising is the failure to recognize that the natural
structure of capitalism is towards monopoly. Monopoly is attained and
maintained by the concept of profit. Mergers, stock ownership, credit, all
fall to those who have been the beneficiaries of large consistent profits
which
Thomas:
One of things I have always like about Galbraith is that he accepts that the
poor are entitled and deserve some joy and comfort and security in their
lives. Something which the majority of the moderate and overly affluent want
to deny. It is as if poorness is not enough, a little suffe
The following lengthy article, I think is very important. I have long
thought that the "replicator" used in the Star Trek space series was the
ultimate invention. The creation of matter by basic molecular
reconstruction solves that Starships food problem. On Earth, we may find
that a "replicat
A few comments on Sally's Posting of Sennetts material. Of course I and I'm
sure most of us on FW would find alignment with Sennet's thoughts and
conclusions and it would be redundant to go through this posting because he
has said it as well or better than I could say it. The problem, as I see
Unless a solution is found to the problem of disposing of nuclear waste,
continued use of fission is causing an environmental disaster of large
proportions. In fact, because the cost of eliminating the radioactive waste
(or storing it for thousands of years) is not known, it is not known whether
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