Dan:
: Forgive me if I seem to be getting off the track here but Im going to persist a little bit, Do you have to be working for someone else to be "working"?EC:
No! In fact, my every post is about changing the current system of working for others. (I am self employed, and I work). I believe large scale undertakings should be people working for themselves, not a profiteer at the top of some pyramid. Have I indicated differently in some posting? If so, point it out and I'll clarify myself.
Dan:
: Do you believe there is a value associated with rarity? in other words if there is a limited supply of something does the value of that something go up? please do not change the subject on this point the assumption is that there is a limited supply.
EC:
This is a tough question, Dan. If something is useful and rare, yes. Rarity by itself is obviously not automatically valuable. Some diseases are rare! However, our society seems to think gold and diamonds are rare and valuable, yet most people in the the wealthiest countries have some of each on their bodies at all times, so there goes the rarity theory where such things are concerned. (also, these items are mined by the poorest people!)
If water is rare, then we can see its true value (and it IS rare in some places because of pollutants that make it unsafe to drink, etc.); we cannot live without it.
But is this discussion really about how the rare and useful item should be distributed, or are you implying the capitalist is a "rare item" and should therefore have greater value than another human being?
Mike, the Everett Citizen
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