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Subject: Re: Re: (micromotives & macrobehavior)
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 02:38:00 EDT
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[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