[p2p-research] The problems of debt

[Ryan Lanham]

I actually agree with this.  I am for a minimum earning for all humans
whether they produce or not.

Lula is either a fool or a great man.  Still trying to make up my mind.  He
has done many good things for Brazil which places him in high contrast to,
say, Chavez who seems to have really hurt Venezueala...though Vez.'s stock
market is one the best performing in the last few years!

I am against free riding when a person has been granted education.  I
actually think the US model of limited-time social safety nets is far
superior to the European model that encourages so many to waste their lives
in minimally productive pursuits.  I also agree with the right that
governments have typically been hugely wasteful.  That is now changing.  The
change will be hard...as it will be in higher ed.

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> http://p2pfoundation.net/Just_Give_Money_to_the_Poor
>
> this book makes a good argument that a basic income policy, i.e. free
> riding in some way, is actually a very good 'business' policy and part of
> what made Brazil successfull under Lula ..
>
>   On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:17 AM, j.martin.pedersen <
> m.pedersen at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 11/07/10 17:50, Ryan Lanham wrote:
>> > If I could find a world where people are responsive to demand, but
>> committed
>> > to share, I'd be very happy.  On the one hand I find capitalists who
>> espouse
>> > selfishness.  On the other, I find socialists who are usually free
>> riders.
>>
>> Free riders?
>>
>> There is just no end to this straw man "argumentation" - constructing
>> Lanhamian "socialism" in such a manner that seems to serve no other end
>> than to establish an idiosyncratic position.......
>>
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