God I love this. It reminds me of all of the reasons that tonal music should never have been pre-empted by contemporary music. Everything is so......clear. Sorry Harry, but you put yourself up to be ribbed. It does fit together however, but where can we see if it works? I don't mean in parts but the whole thing? Maybe we should bring back the golden days of the old Cherokee Nation when they held the land in common and everyone had a house, universal sufferage, universal health care and equality under the law. Priviledge was earned by how much you gave away to the people. There was nooo... poverty but that Republican Dawes said there was no selfishness either (since they gave so much away) and THAT was the problem so they broke up the land and gave most of it to white folks and we have been largely homeless ever since. So where else would there not be a big bully genocidal neighbor next door to do us in for having too little greed although our professionals did as well as the Jews in that first fifty years or so of dispersal. After that we too were hit by the depression and never quite recovered.
Well thanks for the memory. REH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Keith Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 8:23 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] La Guardia's Rule > Brad, > > Depends what you mean by value. > > Actually, only labor produces Wealth. > > However, if a law passes which allows me to take half the Wealth that labor > produces, this privilege has value and I can sell the privilege for a > useful sum. > > Similarly, a privilege limits the number of cabs that may ply for hire in > New York City. Legally to operate the cab, you must have a medallion. The > price of the medallion is now somewhere around $200,000. > > Instant value, but no Wealth. > > Then there is the slave whose value is $2,000. > > As Marx eventually wrote in Das Kapital, surplus value disappears into > Economic Rent (Land Rent). > > So, the concept has no value. > > Harry > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Brad wrote: > > >Keith Hudson wrote: > > > >[snip] > > > >>The economists' blind spot is energy. This is the free lunch. > > > >[snip] > > > >Isn't this just one aspect of Kalr Marx's observation that > >only human labor produces value (and, a fortiori...) > >surplus value? Everything else > >is just part of labor's (OK, management's...) smorgasbord. > > > > ****************************** > Harry Pollard > Henry George School of LA > Box 655 > Tujunga CA 91042 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (818) 352-4141 > Fax: (818) 353-2242 > ******************************* > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.434 / Virus Database: 243 - Release Date: 12/25/2002 > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
