Hmmmm, I am not sure what is the difference between the semantics ( meaning, essence) of the statement and the spirit of the statement. Could you elaborate a bit here?
In my humble opinion, this statement only sounds nicely, making it a good slogan, but it is empty/broken in essence ....... Again I am lost, what is the spirit of this statement? let me show you again how this statement is broken: WHO gets to decide what each person is able to do, and what are his/her needs? IF it is the person himself, the system tends to gravitate to the state, where: each one evaluates his abilities at MIN (meaning they do not produce much for the system) each one evaluates his needs at MAX (trying to exploit system to get maximum from it) This leads to broken system where there is not enough goods produced everyone lives poorly, chronic shortage of basic goods, even soap and toilet paper :) Former USSR knows this path very well. IF it is some other person, who decides, what people are able to do and what are their needs, the system tends to gravitate to the state, where: people abilities are evaluated at MAX (meaning lots of work requested from people, compulsory work in extreme cases) people needs are evaluated at MIN (even basic needs are thrown out in extreme cases) This leads to a slippery path of the bureaucratic governing, planned economy, compulsory work, compulsory work camps Again, the former USSR knows this path very well..... I do not know of any method, which _fairly_ evaluates people's abilities and needs..... Of course, if one finds third, better method, the argument may change, but untill then we are stuck with one of the above options, and these lead to UGLY consequences. Michael Redler wrote: > Tom, > > It certainly would be if you only looked at the semantics and not the spirit > of the statement. > > Mike > > Tomas Juknevicius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Redler wrote: > > > > > "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." > > > > -- Karl Marx > > Hi, this slogan above ^^^^^ is one of the ugliest slogans in the world.... > > The immediate question, which leaves this slogan crashing and burning, is: > WHO gets to decide what each person is able to do, and what are his/her needs? > > -- > Tomas Juknevicius > Senior Programmer > -- Tomas Juknevicius _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
