extreme and idealistic systems are often bad... It is often hard for thos in the system to admit it, and roland benabou have made a paper about that : "belief in a just world and redistributive politic" http://www.princeton.edu/~rbenabou/papers/BJW.pdf
what is sure is that human species is a social animal, and like many primate, and even more because we understand higher level of concept and compute better (when motivated to), human love justice, and are even ready to lose so they can punish unfair facts. It has been measured, for humans of many culture and some primates. It has also been shown that unfairness and inequality block growth, and cause violence. even if surprisingly it is not necessarily violence by the poor. (terrorist are often higher class, because ideology is expensive for the brain, and poor focus their energy on survival) funny to see american discuss politics, because it is like looking at europe in a mirror. note tha both our system are falling apart for opposite reason. as said in the article, both our system have the same "social mobility", with only minor and non intuitive difference (germany is the most fair, italy the least and US in the middle) 2012/10/7 Craig Haynie <cchayniepub...@gmail.com> > Jed may think he's writing about economics, but he's actually writing > about morality and politics, because people pursue their economic > policies in their quest for morality. > > For instance, Venezuela is falling apart. > > Venezuela is falling apart. > > > http://reason.com/archives/2012/10/07/what-has-hugo-chavez-done-for-venezuela > > > http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/08/24/venezuela-imports-oil-despite-having-huge-reserves/ > > Another experiment in socialism leads to where every other experiment > has led. That people continue to try this social experiment, is > evidence that people will follow their moral conscience despite all > the empirical evidence in the world against it. People desperately > need to discover morality, and not just any morality, but the only > morality possible which is universal and treats everyone equally. This > the key: morality must be universal, and the only moral principle > possible which treats everyone as equals, is the non-aggession > principle. All others break universality in some way, shape, or form, > and create extra-moral agents, like governments, which create the > moral rules which we are all then required to follow. When people > respect others, and do not threaten violence against them to achieve > desired social and political goals, then the resulting economic system > is capitalism. > > Craig > >
