-- At 12:30 PM 9/28/2000 +0300, Sampo A Syreeni wrote:
Oh but it is quite possible to put people in similar trouble if we grant that the right to property is absolute - if somebody owns on a sufficiently wide scale the basic commodities one needs to survive in the modern world (like fresh water, farming land, employment opportunities), others are born right in the middle of the proverbial desert.
James A. Donald:
But in a free market this never happens. It only happens when the government intervenes. Thus, for example, we only see homelessness where there is rent control, we only see hunger where there is rationing and collectivized farming, and so on and so forth.
At 11:27 AM 9/29/2000 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
I assume (hope!) that you are merely being sarcastic.
I am simply reporting what any fool can see. Where do we see mass starvation? today we see it in North Korea, where the government has charge of food production and distribution, and a little earlier we saw it in Ethiopia where the same system applied. All the big famines were created by governments. Similarly, where do we see homelessness? Most of it is in San Francisco, half jokingly known as the people's republic as San Francisco, because of its drastic governmental management of housing. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG t5O4eL2x0M6k7ndK2ThplFXEUsakal5yFhuyqT6b 446e1qEYP/CB8TwFUBQP4NPbSlL+pdOJj4HbaMaPi