Retribution not enough
David Honig
honig at sprynet.com
Mon Oct 22 14:04:17 PDT 2001
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.)
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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
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