Re: Our Anti-Merit System

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From: Bob LeChevalier
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:54

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"Mark Richards" <markrichards8@hotmail.com> wrote:
>South Africa is a sovereign nation so can do whatever it wants. Look at what
>Zimbabwe is doing with the farmland. It could nationalize all the mines, so
>why do you suppose it doesn't?

The US is a sovereign nation and could nationalize all of business, so
why do you suppose that it doesn't?

Laws, maybe?

>> Our current income redistribution programs,
>> while burdensome, are vastly preferable to the societal rubble that
>> America's earlier, freer, industrial age created. Robber-barons made paupers
>> of the rest of us, regardless of color.
>
>And the Federal Reserve was created to prevent the boom-and-bust cycle, and
>we had the Depression 16 years later.

And no Depressions since - 60 years without a depression is an immense
amount of time compared to what went on before.


>> Furthermore, I contend that individuals, left to their own devices, are
>> generally too greedy to be very good at charity. While you and all your
>> friends may be decent and giving people, the vast unwashed would rather buy
>> more crap on the Home Shopping Network than help their fellow man.
>
>We have the Red Cross, United Way, and Salvation Army, among others, all
>supported by donors. Whenever a disaster happens anywhere in the world, we
>are quick to send relief. And this is all for people we don't know and will
>never meet. Don't you think we would respond even better if the needy
>individuals were right in our own town?

While those worthy organizations do a lot, their aid is hardly a drop
in the bucket compared to the cost of major disasters.

lojbab

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From: Bob LeChevalier <lojbab@lojban.org>
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