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!ucbvax!decvax!cca!inmet!janw From: janw@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Re: (micromotives & macrobehavior) Message-ID: <28200096@inmet.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 02:38:00 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.28200096 Posted: Mon Sep 23 02:38:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 26-Sep-85 07:43:45 EDT References: <3476@topaz.UUCP> Lines: 32 Nf-ID: #R:topaz:-347600:inmet:28200096:000:1300 Nf-From: inmet!janw Sep 23 02:38:00 1985 [Jan Wasilewsky] >> In the USA, one can eat like a king off a garbage dump. >> One hour's work at McDonald's could feed a 3d world citizen for a week. [Richard Carnes] > True, so why are there many Americans who don't get enough to eat? > Because they're too proud to eat out of garbage cans, right? *And* too proud to work at McDonald's. A nation whose poor can afford these two kinds of pride deserves to be proud of it. I hope some of the netters live to the time when no one agrees to work as an assembly line worker, or a bookkeeper, for the love of money. (My apologies to those who find these occupations in- teresting). But you can't get there by redistribution. > True, the poor of Chicago are much better off than the poor of > Calcutta. Somehow this isn't much consolation to the poor in > Chicago. It may give some hope to the poor of Calcutta, provided their country keeps steering West. Let me ask you a question, Richard. I know you are an egalitarian and a redistributionist (you also call yourself a Socialist, but to me, this seems a misnomer). Are you an internationalist, as well? If so, would you favor a global, equal redistribution of income - from Chicago to Dacca ? And what do you think the effect would be this year? Three years from now ? Jan Wasilewsky