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Re: Food For Thought 

By: DGpeddler in POPE | Recommend this post (2)
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"They showed that coercively biased exchange would reward waste, laziness and carelessness."

And that sounds like our current welfare system.




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Food For Thought
By: Zimbler0
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Sun, 27 May 12 8:57 PM
Msg. 59172 of 65535

I would find contemplation of what I am going to cross
post next more appropriate that the drivel FFT usually
wallows in.

Here is another key concept from the site:

"They showed that coercively biased exchange would reward waste, laziness and carelessness."

Zim.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1178159.html?key=01-42161A527E19156E1B0B07164A275E3F3C44390F7678700E720E0A60651A617F133D

When people saw that it was immoral to stop them
from making mutually beneficial exchanges, the
battle was won. However, this might never have
been noticed through the dark blinders of the
moral pretensions of medieval constrictions, except
that bourgeois theorists made clear the ruinous
social consequences of feudal ways. They showed that coercively biased exchange would reward waste,
laziness and carelessness. Free exchange, by contrast, would reward thrift, useful labor and wise decisions. Capitalism's optimal use of resources is a bourgeois virtue that might be better appreciated in our own ecologically conscious age.

(CrossPosted By: Zim.)


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