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From: janw@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: (micromotives & macrobehavior)
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 13:22:00 EDT
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>> [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