At 01:25 PM 10/22/01 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
Of course you're ignoring the fact that sometimes the reason that they are "starving on their own retched little plots of land." is because of NAFTA and huge multinational corporations importing so much US factory farmed corn and other ag products into that country that they can't compete.
Obviously if their corn is too expensive, they need to grow something else. Or find some other edge --you know, buy our organic CPUs handcrafted by vegetarian Santa Clara monks using Daisy CAD. You have no "right" to make a living growing/making something you can't sell. Paraphrasing Thoreau: Man said "I exist". The universe said, "So?" Of course, if you closed their market to others, you'd just raise the price for the corn-eaters. We've been
thru this discussion before.
Indeed.
All else being equal, there is no logical reason in the world why they should be "starving on their own retched little plots of land."
Overpopulation. Malthus. [Don't even start, Choate] Starving is the natural state. (All this assumes no immoral coercion by native governments or others.) ---- Humans are the only species who don't let their learning interfere with their behavior --GS Actually, to me, anyway, "Capitalism" is a Marxist word meaning "economics". -RAH