Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: A Mathematical Model for Radical Cen Message-ID: <1415@dciem.UUCP> Date: Sat, 23-Feb-85 19:05:34 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.1415 Posted: Sat Feb 23 19:05:34 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Feb-85 20:18:34 EST References: <88@spar.UUCP> Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 21 Summary: >You make a false assumption: wealth is not bounded. There is >NOT a finite amount of wealth that has to spread around subject >to some set of social/economic constraints. Given the right >policies (FREE market), wealth is easily created, raising >everyone's standard of living. In doing so, our freedom and >security is enhanced. > > > Steven Ashby Except for the a priori assumption of what constitutes "the right policies", this is dead on. We get the driving power for generating wealth mainly from the sun (and a little from nuclear fission), and we generate it by organizing materials or people. So long as the resources are sufficient, we can be as wealthy as we want (as a society). -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsri!dciem!mmt