steve wrote...
>Yeah like the tragedy of the commons. Your problem is not with
>private property but the initial allocation of resources.
well, first of all i don't consider it to be MY problem.... i consider it
to be A problem.... but you are right in part.... let us ask, how were
resources initially allocated? well, we'd have to go pretty far back for
the answer to that... throughout most of history, they were allocated on
one simple basis... "might makes right"... the stronger and more powerful
(usually physically, be it a person or a nation) took control of
resources... and all of history can be seen as either taking, or fighting
to keep, those resources.... and this continues to this day.... and as i've
said before, the idea of private property was origionally implemented for
the benifit of protecting an individual against the ill intentioned advances
of others... but it hasn't worked.... or it's gone down hill, either way
one looks at it... the fact is that the wealth is distributed very
disproportionally, and people all over the world are starving to death
unnecessarily because of this.... private property might not be the source
of the problem, but it isn't helping at all... at least not in the form
that it's now in.... there should be some changes....
spirit
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