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From: sykora@csd2.UUCP (Michael Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Politics and Ethics--Socialism, Libertarianism, and Capitalism
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Date: Sun, 15-Dec-85 20:49:00 EST
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>/* berman@psuvax1.UUCP (Piotr Berman) / 12:18 pm  Dec 13, 1985 */

>Berman: Who creates the means of production?  People who provide labor,
>people who provide expertise of people who provide capital?  How you
>split the contribution?  (I skip the remark about non-scarce resources
>here).  I claim that the situation is sufficiently messy that it is
>impossible the formulate an always aplicable first-principle.

The people who provide the labor do so for a fee.  They transfer their
rights to the product of this labor to the payer of the fee.  
The people who provide the expertise do so for a fee.  They transfer their
rights to the product of this expertise to the payer of the fee.  
The people who provide the capital do so for a return and/or a partial
ownership in the finished product.
The providers of these services are free to provide them at the agreed upon
price/return or not.
The contributions are split according to the agreed upon price of services/
capital.
This may be messy, but it's alot less messy than government administered
systems.

Michael Sykora