Hi Rog, Eliott, All:
Rog writes:
> I am concerned that your ideals will destroy this system, leaving us with
> ineffective social productivity -- and potentially undermining society in
> entirety. Without the market system, you need an alternative to sustain
> society's economic engine. The alternative throughout history has tended
> to be authoritarian control and exploitation (after society gets beyond one
> or two hundred people -- smaller societies can and do cooperate in a much
> more egalitarian fashion, but large societies can't.) My fear is that your
> utopia is actually another one way ticket to the authoritarian exploitation
> and central command of socialism.
Evidence of how Dynamic Quality is smothered by socialism as
practiced in many European countries was presented recently in a
study by the Swedish Research Institute of Trade (HUI). It revealed that
the typical middle class Swede, even before paying his nation's highest-
in-the-world taxes, earns less money and enjoys fewer material goods
that the average African-American in the United States. The study
reported, "If Sweden were a U.S. state, it would be the poorest
measured by household gross income before taxes." Sweden is poorer
that Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi. The tragedy is that before its
plunge into welfare statism during the 1960's, Sweden had one of the
world's fastest growing, most prosperous economies, according to
Swedish historian Johan Norberg.
As usual, Rog's unfailingly lucid explanations of the virtues of free
enterprise within the context of the MOQ are illustrative and illuminating.
Platt
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