Of course Jim - I only slipped in this ironic (!) comment to flush out
the Gordon Geckos among you. Frankly I'd suggest that whoever thought
that 'From each according to their abilities; to each according to
their needs' was an abject failure was not only discarding one hundred
years of communism but about two thousand years of Christianity as
well, not to mention various other ethical codes.
AndrewF
(Green Anarcho-syndicalist, last time I looked).
On 24/09/2004, at 1:36 PM, Jim Brokaw wrote:
>>
>> That depends - what's in it for me?
>> AndrewF
>
> Quite so... I believe in a society of complete equality, except of
> course
> since I will be putting my efforts into organizing and dividing the
> resources of the society I will be, myself, just slightly more equal
> than
> the rest. After all, that's only fair, right? And therein lies the
> bugaboo
> of all 'equality' societies. How do you divide the 'slightly more
> equal'
> bits... the market seems to do this justice nearly as well as every
> other
> method (just like democracy, its the worst, except for all the other
> methods
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