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  • From: Phillip Rhodes <mindcrime AT cpphacker.co.uk>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] from the desk of Arianna Huffington
  • Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:55:52 -0400

Alan MacHett wrote:

To be honest, I'm dumbfounded. Until reading your emails, I would NEVER
have associated 'Republican' or 'Free Market' with management having lower
salaries than employees or with redistributing profit back to the
community. Well, I STILL don't associate those things; I think you've
mislabeled yourself.

Why not? Capitalism and Free Market aren't about individuals not giving
back to the community, etc. "Socialism" (at least as it's commonly understood) is about government based charity. One of the reasons that Libertarians maintain that government charity is not needed, is the belief that in the absence of it, private charity would take it's place.

The relative greed and self-centeredness of individuals is really
a completely separate issue from whether you live in a socialist
or capitalistic society. In Soviet Russia during the height of Communism (the ultimate form of Socialism?) where there not individuals
who managed to accumulate great wealth while others went hungry?

Capitalism and "Free Market" economics do not *necessarily* equal a
selfish, "me first" attitude on the part of everyone involved. Those
attitudes transcend political and economic affiliations, IMHO.

TTYL,

Phil
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