[MD] Value and the Individual

Christoffer Ivarsson IvarssonChristoffer at hotmail.com
Mon Apr 14 09:02:02 PDT 2008



> [Chris]
>> Because money, or capitalism really, is like the giant. Not
>> concerned about the compounds that makes it run. And so a free capitalist
>> system isn't concerned about human suffering and injustice, even though 
>> some
>> of the humans in that system may be, and so it isn't going to fix those
>> things.

[Platt]
> What other system has done more to relieve human suffering and injustice?

Well, that's not the question is it? the question is why we should keep an 
imperfect system.

[Chris]
>> Thus we modify the system, control it so that those things -
>> injustice and suffering can be dealt with. The system comes to be more in
>> the hands of humans that above them.

[Platt]
> The nice thing about a free market is that you can choose to participate 
> in
> or not. You can always become a policeman, a soldier, a government
> bureaucrat or a bum.

Let me ask you this - does a free market capitalist system have to be in 
combination with democracy?


Regards
 Chris

 




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