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From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: What is "capitalism"?
Message-ID: <2230@topaz.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 21:37:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  6 21:37:33 1985
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In article <286@spar.UUCP> baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) writes:
>> How can a relatively small number of people (i.e., the gov't.) know
>> what's best for millions?  Moreover, how can anyone know what's best
>> for anyone else?
>>						Mike Sykora
>
>By the same logic, how can everyone know what's best for *themselves*?
>
>						Baba

All other things being equal, every knows what's best for themselves,
better than someone else does.  This does not mean that anyone either
(a) understands his own needs perfectly, or (b) understands how to 
meet them perfectly.  But most people understand their own needs
and their own abilities better than anyone else does.

--JoSH