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From: franka@hercules.UUCP (Frank Adrian)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Capitalist production
Message-ID: <426@hercules.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 14:24:31 EST
Article-I.D.: hercules.426
Posted: Thu Mar 21 14:24:31 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 26-Mar-85 06:33:57 EST
References: <370@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <5252@utzoo.UUCP>
Reply-To: franka@hercules.UUCP (Frank Adrian)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Summary: 

In article <5252@utzoo.UUCP> laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes:
>
>I'm a widget maker from another town. Business gets lousy -- everybody
>would rather buy from JoSH because he produces more and cheaper widgets.
>I decide that I can either provide some function that JoSH doesn't
>have in my widgets (but I can't think of one) or I can retrain to
>do something else (but I don't want to do this, or think that I can't)
>or I can go and work for JoSH. 
>
>Somewhere JoSH went from being good and fine, to putting me in a
>place where i am forced to sell my labour to JoSH. But I don't get
>it -- what has JoSH done wrong?
>

You just said it in the parenthetical comment "but I can't think of one".
JoSH, through his ability to work harder, think ahead, put off short term
for long term gains, and simply being smarter (and perhaps luckier), has
come out on top.  All persons are NOT created equal.  Any attempt to change
this basic fact of nature will ultimately fail as one must inevitably pull
down the FEW achievers drastically to raise the standard of MANY unworthies
marginally.  I've always been a big fan of "social Darwinism".  Funny, no
one has ever disproved it to me, either.  Most of the disproofs are based
on some sort of moralistic thinking (very questionable, as survival is its
own morality) which then generally boils down to, "I don't like it, so it
isn't true."
			A firm believer that Ghengis Khan was right,
				Frank Adrian