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Subject: Re: $1.3 million vs. 30 children
Message-ID: <131@charm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Oct-83 23:52:08 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 10 23:52:08 1983
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NO!!  *None* of this money ever fed any children.  It represents only
the TOTAL VALUE OF THE WORLD'S PRODUCTS WHICH ARE DEVOTED TO
DESTRUCTION.  If this kind of reasoning were valid (that is, "since the
money was spent, it must have done some good somewhere"), then a single
dollar could feed all the hungry children, just by being continuously
circulated.  When we read that $N are spent on arms, what this really
means is that the total value of the capital and labor which has been
devoted to war is equal to N (in dollars).  This social product
could just as well have gone toward meeting human needs.