Andrea:
> This is mainly to prevent any newcomers to think that "according to the MOQ,
> democratic capitalism is clearly more moral than socialist systems" (and thus run
> away if they happen to be left wing). This is Platt's opinion.
Newcomers be not duped. Here is a direct quote from Chapter 17 of
LILA:
"The Metaphysics of Quality says the free market makes everybody
richer by preventing static economic patterns from setting in and
stagnating economic growth. That is the reason the major capitalist
economies of the world have done so much better since World War II
than the major socialist economies. It is not that Victorian social
economic patterns are more moral than socialist intellectual economic
patterns. Quite the opposite. They are less moral as static patterns go.
What makes the free-enterprise system superior is that the socialists,
reasoning intelligently and objectively, have inadvertently closed the
door to Dynamic Quality in the buying and selling of things. They closed
it because the metaphysical structure of their objectivity never told them
Dynamic Quality exists."
Platt
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