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From: ncg@ukc.UUCP (N.C.Gale)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: GOALS - Planning for a future
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Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 17:39:37 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 11 17:39:37 1985
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Reply-To: ncg@ukc.UUCP  Nigel Gale
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Cliff proposes a zoo of every conceivable society, under a
World metagovernment, so that everyone could find their ideal
country.

Nice idea. I like it. (though I still don't understand why any
country would want another's criminals, unless the criminal took
his ill-gotten gains with him. Perhaps there could be World Laws
too...)

One problem, however.
I don't think that Socialism could ever work in a world where there
were also Free Market economies.
(My reasons are based upon my own opinionated misconceptions about
socialism, and are open to correction)

Socialism demands that a man be paid by the amount of work he
does. So a painting is worth the number of man/hours it took
to paint and sell it. A farmer gets paid the same amount as a
politician working the same hours. Whether or not his crop fails.
(the farmer's, that is).
But what motivation is there for a highly-skilled worker to
stay in this paradise, if he can be paid twice as much in the
Libertarian paradise, just over the border. Very little.
So they would have to have emigration restrictions.

I could labour the point, but I expect you see it already.



-Nigel Gale