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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: minimalism in government
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 02:51:56 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 02:51:56 1985
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> >/* colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) / 11:19 am  Jul  8, 1985 */
> 
> >Socialists generally feel that the production of material wealth is
> >efficient enough now.  They are more interested in distributing
> >material wealth and producing non-material wealth (e.g., nursing
> >care, public transport).
> 
> >Col. G. L. Sicherman
> 
> If this is the case, then they make a fundamental error in assuming
> that the switch from a decentralized market controlled economy to
> one in which wealth is "distributed" will not affect the efficiency
> of that economy in a drastically adverse way.
> 
> 						Mike Sykora

It not at all clear that they necessarily assume that there will be no 
adverse effect, although they have historically been over-optimistic about 
it.  They may simply be willing to sacrifice economic efficiency to achieve 
their objectives.

					Baba