From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Fri Jun 07 2002 - 01:06:11 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
> Lee Daniel Crocker writes
>
>
>>If one wants to acquire wealth and power by means of
>>free exchange with other free individuals, the more
>>the better--that's what makes the world a better
>>place, and why we're all here.
>>
>
> I am afraid that here you have lost many of those who
> Mike Lorrey calls the "anti-propertarians". I think
> that it might help them see where we are going with
> this to point out that wealth production by an individual
> is usually proportional to the number and size of economic
> exchanges he or she makes with others.
>
> Thus if we want a maximally wealthy civilization, it
> is *necessary* that those who engage in the greatest
> number of free economic exchanges with others profit
> mightily.
>
I do not want a "maximally wealthy society" in terms of money.
I want a maximally wealth society in terms of real well-being
and opportunity. They are not necessarily the same thing and it
doesn't necessarily require the continuation of much that we
think of as "property rights". Some of our notions of property
rights might actually be very much in the way.
- samantha
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