[MD] Are we the people stupid?

[David M]

Platt

Funny thing is when you ask people they work
for the benefit of their families and for satisfactions
that are not exclusively money related. And of course
you have to work or otherwise you are excluded from
a world that has been carved out as property, you
have to make yourself available as a slave to the planet
owning minority. How did they get to own it all?

David M


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Platt Holden" <pholden at davtv.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Are we the people stupid?


> [Arlo]:
>> If there was no self-gain, how would individuals express their
>> "individual freedom"? According to capitalism, without the carrot of
>> "money", people would not work at all. According to Marxist theory,
>> individuals would express their "individual freedom" by working to
>> better humanity, not simply themselves. That Marxism was never able to
>> be successfully implemented on a large scale proves the point.
>> Capitalism's assessment that people are lazy and stupid unless motivated
>> by the self-interest of  "wealth and money" seems to be true, at least
>> in an SOMist world.
> 
> What's your problem with with self-interest?
> 
> What's wrong for working to satisfy yourself?
> 
> How come you never address the Dynamism of capitalism compared to 
> "dull" socialism?
> 
> Talk about evading questions! 
> 
> Platt
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