Sally,
I am philosophically opposed to a "Basic Income", for it seems to indicate
that some people are getting an unfair and even criminal share of the pie,
and that somehow we should take it back and share it out.
As radical centrist, I would suggest that a better direction for effort
Robert,
You suggested:
"society's rationalizations for not being able to solve its problems?"
I suspect therein lies the problem. Society doesn't solve problems though
it may create them.
You and I solve problems. However as said Einstein (I think) in a quote
that I enjoy:
"Solutions are
he loss of life amongst the soldiers who
murdered the women and children on Christmas.
All of which is to say once more. If you control the history and define
the information that may enter the argument, then you can prove anything.
Ask President Bob Jones of Bob Jones University. His world is comple
Ray E. Harrell wrote:
My apologies to the list for not being able to punch the
spellcheck button on the last two posts. It's the Neurontin.
Makes me woozy but fun.
Ray,
I've already said you write well.
You write even better when you are stoned!
But, get off it as soon as you can.
Harry
Bill,
Thank you for not resisting: "another simplistic explanation of a complex
problem."
You didn't much like my "find out why the peasants are inefficient
producers." and proceeded to explain to me how efficient they were.
It seems to me that if they are so efficient, they shouldn't need
or-trailer loads of product
(natural gas fireplaces) from my employer 70 miles north of Toronto. It was
fortunately recovered when a Toronto cop spotted the cartons in a warehouse,
and a wiretap (requiring a translation from the Russian) led the police to
the boss. Harry Pollard might quibble about
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:32:24 Harry Pollard wrote:
Victor wrote:
I am by no means a communist or socialist, but this looks like
propaganda-sriven tunnel vision
Chris wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Harry Pollard wrote:
Every year a bunch of US cardiac specialists went to the Soviet Union and
for two weeks, they would work solidly in a Moscow hospital doing, I
suppose, triage as they took patients from the multitude to operate and
save lives. I
Arthur, et al,
Don't we pine for the days before globalization, when there were no poor in
the world, everyone had a living wage, there was no unemployment, and
corporations weren't making exorbitant profits?
But, they were the good old days. Now we have this enormous international
WTO that
it bothers you just
cut to the next post. But the article at the end is an important one, I
hope you will read it.
REH
Harry Pollard wrote:
(snip)
And well you should avoid answering it, for their ability to put potatoes
into the mouths of their peoples is atrocious.
The below
become less effective.
Harry
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Ray wrote:
Harry Pollard wrote:
One major warning! Socialism and Communism and their spin-offs have proven
themselves to be hopeless at increasing production. The international
conferences to "solve the proble
Steve,
Your quote suggests why the problem will never be solved (which will prove
the prophet of doom and gloom is right). His web page is below.
Look at the mindset.
"The more people living in a country, the harder it is to provide proper
services and health care to all."
While these
Steve,
You worry too much. You said:
STEVE: "is that there is adequate fertile soil, sufficient moderate
rainfall (irrigation ultimately ruins soil), sufficient sustainable energy
for warmth cooking, and climate conditions conducive to production of a
healthy diet. A small % of the planet
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market, and you don't
keep an eye on what is going on, you will wind up
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Bahar wrote (see below line):
Mass production is a useful way to get a lot of goods at
lowest cost.If the conditions of work are pretty bad, just
get a different job.
Harry Pollard
Thoughts on the character of Mass Production
it doesn't reach everybody, either in the US
or in the third world.
For heavens sake, ask why?
We are seeing with globalization of trade a rapid increase in the gap
between rich and poor.
We also see El Nino, poor SAT scores, and a Republican Congress
Harry
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Charles wrote:
Harry:
Wrong Charles. I've never suggested abolishing the Patent Office.
Charles Mueller
No, I did - but you should.
The power of Microsoft and many of the other monopolies rests on their
patent ownership. Get rid of patents and copyrights and the
Charles wrote (see below):
None of the problems would arise if the Patent Office were
abolished.
So, that is the answer.
And before anyone starts worrying about people not inventing
things without patent protection, remember Wordstar.
Wordstar had no protection of any kind. All of us used it
Tom Lunde quoted me but ascribed it to Ed (see below):
His Microsoft example doesn't alter the fact that we buy Gates' products
because we are better off. Surely we won't pay money to be worse off.
That's silly.
So that isn't an issue.
However, perhaps we feel we should be better off at less
Neil wrote
HARRY: If we run out of something, we'll use something else. We are
a small species spread thinly across an enormous planet.
Mr. Pollard, what planet is it that you are talking about? Out species
consumes an immense fraction of the total biomass of Earth. (I could look
up a more
Elinor wrote (see below):
World Watch offers a sanitized version of the situation. I assume that
Elinor is countering my suggestion that there is plenty of good space for
peasants to farm in Brazil. I suppose that is politically incorrect, for it
runs counter to the advocates of Pop-Dread, who
Jay wrote:
HARRY: The earth is a veritable storehouse of everything we need.
If we run into a temporary shortage, the market will handle
it while government is printing the appropriate forms.
If we run out of something, we'll use something else. We are
You are probably right Harry
ment only. Oregon Governor Tom McCall last week
rolled into a Union 76 station only to be told by the manager:
"Sorry, Governor, we're only selling to our regular customers."
So the Governor meekly drove to the end of the line at a nearby
station that was taking all comers.
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Jay wrote:
Charles, this "economic" world view -- nothing but
competition
and consumption -- is at odds with the scientific
community.
Do you really believe that public policy should optimize
"competition and consumption"?
If not, what should the goal of public policy be?
Competition gets us
"Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Robert wrote (see below):
One of the major problems is the way we think. The problem is not in any
way overproduction - but underproduction.
Overproduction implies that all consumers have everything they want - an
obvious error.
It just looks like overproduction.
Harry
ples are all covered by the two Assumptions.
Work on these, for they give all of us who deal with people a beginning.
However, it's important that they aren't complicated or amended into
obfuscation. Harry
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g human behavior.
Incidentally, the two assumptions of all science are:
"There is an order in the universe."
"The mind of Man can find that order."
You might like to try that - having failed with the Classical Assumptions.
Harry
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Eva wrote:
(Harry Pollard:)
I don't advocate capitalism. I want a free market.
Beg your pardon? How can you have any market without capitalism?
You mean there would be no market in your socialist scheme?
EVA: You name it, it has been tried. Free market, keynesian market,
monetarist
tomation and intelligent tools.
It seems to me, that "the long cycle of accumulation" has come to an end.
Welcome to the future.
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be free
and independent.
Yet, they can.
Harry
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Tom wrote (see below):
Good luck with your exhibit.
The V2s were frightening. People who had endured the air
assaults for several years were scared stiff of them.
As you know they were supersonic. They hit, then you heard
them.
Rather like the frightening aspect of an earthquake.
Suddenly
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