From: Wim Nusselder (wim.nusselder@antenna.nl)
Date: Tue Aug 31 2004 - 06:04:28 BST
Dear Mel,
You wrote 17 Aug 2004 07:58:10 -0600:
'In practice the broad bell curve of distribution makes for greater
stability compared to a severely disparate bimodal distribution for
wealth, but the really tough part is how this is accomplished.'
By restricting the extremes. (Not prohibitive restrictions, which would
produce a 'pillar-curve', but restrictions that reduce the chance of the
extremes.) High quality 3rd level patterns of values are preferable to low
quality 3rd level patterns of values to do effectuate these restrictions.
Chapter 4 of my "Economics of Want and Greed"
(www.antenna.nl/wim.nusselder/schrijfsels/economics.htm or via www.moq.org)
can be read as a description of a hierarchy of 4 different types of 3rd
level patterns of values.
- Voluntary association around ideas (convincing ideologies) is preferable
to capitalistic entrepreneurs exchanging and competing on markets (economic
dependence).
- The enterprise/market-type of 3rd level patterns of value is preferable to
organization by a state
(government enforcement).
- The state is preferable still to a supposedly "natural" distribution based
on family relations and ethnicity.
- Even a "natural" distribution is preferable to a distribution produced by
the law of the jungle (in the absence of restrictive 3rd level patterns of
value), where the distribution of genetically determined attributes
determines who gets most.
Please keep in mind that in reality 3rd level patterns of value are mixed:
e.g. democracy (in which the enforcing government is legitimized by
political parties convincing their constituency of their ideas) is a mix of
4th and 2nd type 3rd level patterns of value.
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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