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Old 11-24-2007, 18:20 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Parihaka View Post
But you, I, and I suspect he knows that in a market economy, that won't occur. the rich will still eat, it's the poor that won't.
We are realists. We know how people work and how the market works.

He's a scholar. He probably lives on a college campus, gives a lecture every 3 days, and gets research grants. These people have no idea how the world works. They only know that theoretically the world should work in a certain way if you do certain things, ie social engineering. Except that people will find ways around it with black markets and reduced spending and diverting resources to other endevours.

I'm not certain if that's what he had in mind, but I would not be surprised if it is.
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