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Re: Preaching to the Choir
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:29:20 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks wrote:
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Yeah. Ideally, under such a system the medium of exchange would simply be
the manhour.
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But wouldn’t that play havoc with comparative advantage?
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Hopefully. That’s the goal.
Not really. You have so many hours and then you’re dead and gone. Your hour
is worth an hour.
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Communism. Essentially denies supply and demand. Interesting idea but it
didn’t seem to work, at least at some levels.
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Nevertheless, it must be admitted that some people have invested more
manhours in training for (or in otherwise establishing) their vocations, so
a greater return on that investment is understandably desirable to them.
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Misunderstandably. The thinking that one man deserves more for his hour of
labor than another is an anti-social paradigm that favors the lucky over the
unlucky. I’m smarter (or whatever) than 99% (or whatever) of people. Do I
really deserve a better standard of living than those 99%? I just drew the
lucky card -- so I get a lifetime of relative comfort and ease? I have a
very hard time expressing how screwed up I think that is. Is it not economic
might makes right? What’s the difference?
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Broadly speaking, I suppose that we already engage in something like this
manhour-based economy,
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“Workhours” unless you are still in the dark ages. :-)
-->Bruce<--
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| (...) To the best of my knowledge -- limited as it is, no system of equitable socialism has been tried on this planet for 500 years since the peak of Hopi civilization. All of the modern communisims that I have read about (and talked to (...) (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) That's how I meant it all along. Sorry for being unclear. You don't have to have people as stewards, though that might foster a philosophic advantage for society, so long as what's taxed is the wealth, regardless of who owns it. For the rest (...) (20 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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