[MD] socialism

[Matt Kundert]

> Hi Platt,
> 
> > Back in the 1930's America came to a fork in the road and chose the road to
> > serfdom. In MOQ terms, social patterns of coercive cooperation have overcome
> > intellectual patterns of individual liberty.
> 
> [Steve]
> And yet the twentieth century is often called "The American Century."
> Despite it's choice of serfdom in the 30's, apparently the US still
> managed to emerge as the most wealthy and influential nation in the
> world. Not a bad record for the American brand of "coercive
> cooperation."

Indeed, some economists are rolling back all the "WWII war-spending got us out of the Great Depression" talk and saying, rather, that war-spending actually _forestalled_ the good, economy-lifting impact of FDR's New Deal programs.  

> [Steve]
> What was that ideal time in America's pre-1930's history when things
> were better than they are now? If you had to go back to that time now
> but could not choose whether you would go back as a wealthy white
> heterosexual male or a chinese immigrant or a female or a native
> American or a black person would you?

Yeah, what did they call that time?  The Roaring 20's?  Predicated on the...

Robber Barons, that's right.

Of course, it wasn't exactly roaring in the south.  That was just the Jim Crow 20's.

Nice use of Rawls' veil of ignorance, Steve.

Matt
 		 	   		  
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