Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site spar.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!spar!baba From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: minimalism in government Message-ID: <394@spar.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 02:51:56 EDT Article-I.D.: spar.394 Posted: Fri Jul 12 02:51:56 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 16:55:21 EDT References: <911@gloria.UUCP> <1340283@acf4.UUCP> Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA Lines: 22 > >/* 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