Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site inmet.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!yale!inmet!janw From: janw@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Re: (micromotives & macrobehavior) Message-ID: <28200099@inmet.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 13:22:00 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.28200099 Posted: Mon Sep 23 13:22:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 06:19:38 EDT References: <3476@topaz.UUCP> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:topaz:-347600:inmet:28200099:000:566 Nf-From: inmet!janw Sep 23 13:22:00 1985 >> [josh] >> Distribution of nothing, no matter how even, feeds no one. > [carnes@gargoyle] > JoSH conveniently overlooks the case of China, where a billion or so > people manage to stay decently fed on nothing, and where people > formerly set their clocks by the famines. Fed on NOTHING!! Gee whiz. Should be posted to net.religion, sure beats that old fishes-and-loaves story ... The story as I've heard it is different: their *production* increased after redistribution policies had been curbed. Then, and not before, the famines stopped. Jan Wasilewsky