Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!ut-sally!riddle From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: part of what's wrong with socialism Message-ID: <546@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Dec-83 20:35:51 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.546 Posted: Tue Dec 6 20:35:51 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Dec-83 04:51:49 EST References: <180@sjuvax.UUCP> <234@denelcor.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 18 >> >... >> >However, capitalism tends to fail insofar as distribution is >> >concerned.... >> >> I keep hearing this and the best I can understand from it is >> "begging-the-question" on a truly heroic scale. Capitalism "tends" to >> distribute goods and services to those who produce goods and services. >> >> Neal Weidenhofer >> !denelcor!neal That all depends, of course, on what you mean by "producing" goods and services. I think that Marx would have said that capitalism tends to distribute goods and services to those who collect dividend checks. ---- Prentiss Riddle {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle