From: ml (mbtlehn@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Tue Aug 31 2004 - 18:19:51 BST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wim Nusselder" <wim.nusselder@antenna.nl>
To: "MD" <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: MD the quality of equality
> 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.
>
mel:
Your answer to the implied question of how this would be done is
a good description of how this would look. My concern was that
the method of implementation walks a tight rope between on the
one hand civil war and on the other boondoggle.
Regarding your first point above, capitalistic entrepreneurs exchanging
and competing on markets, just is one form of; Voluntary association
around ideas. I do however, see that the 'market' is not the only possible
measure - Physicians Without Borders is one such example.
thanks--mel
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