Re: [PEN-L] zero-sum game? [was: Vietnamese economic "success"]

[Sandwichman]

That's what you think, Jim. According to official dogma (and Citizen Weston, presumably), the pot is only "fixed" in J's imagination. But the more M gets of it, the larger the pot becomes and so J gets more by virtue of getting less through the magic of trickle down. It's called growth. Thusly, neoliberal economics gets to have its wages-fund cake and eat its lump-of- labor too. It's the Law!

On 4/25/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

me:
> > There's a fixed "pot" (the labor done) and M and J
> > are fighting over its distribution.

Sandwichman  writes:
>  zero-sum = you can't have your cake and eat it too.
>  zero-sum = a fixed amount of work to be done.

I don't get this. What I wrote had _nothing_ to do with any lump of
labor fallacy or its opposite.
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Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence
of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles

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Sandwichman