Re: longevity in 20 years

From: Eric Chomko (echomko_at__at_polaris.umuc.edu)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:11:55 +0000 (UTC)

Fred J. McCall (fmccall@earthlink.net) wrote:
: simberg.interglobal@org.trash (Rand Simberg) wrote:

: :On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:34:13 GMT, in a place far, far away, Fred J.
: :McCall <fmccall@earthlink.net> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
: :such a way as to indicate that:
: :
: :>:That we currenty have poor is largely a consequence of malgovernment,
: :>:not technology level.
: :>
: :>And no doubt we could also arrange it so that all the children are
: :>above average?
: :>
: :>In other words, there will ALWAYS be 'poor' unless we get some utopian
: :>redistribution of wealth scheme. You might want to compare being
: :>'poor' in a First World country with being poor in a Third World
: :>country.
: :
: :There will alway be some people who are poor relative to other people,
: :but there's no need for anyone to live in the kind of grinding poverty
: :that much of the Third World (and much of the Second World as well)
: :does. That's the kind of "poor" that I was discussing.

: Then you should, by all means, send your money to them to equalize
: things to lift them out of their grinding poverty.

Isn't the tsunami relief fund exactly that to some degree?

: Economics - study some. Economics is the study of the allocation of
: scarce (as in non-infinite) resources. What do you want to allocate
: resources AWAY from to 'fix' things by allocating resources to them?

And you need to study abundance and creativity, because your idea of
scarcity is simply wrong! I have proven it so time and time again.

Eric

: --
: "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."
: -- Charles Pinckney

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