roundtable: Re: OP-ED ON TV - PUBLIC

roundtable: Re: OP-ED ON TV / PUBLIC

Re: OP-ED ON TV / PUBLIC

Brad Cox (bcox@gmu.edu)
Mon, 9 Jan 1995 18:22:00 -0500 

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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 18:22:00 -0500
To: roundtable@cni.org
From: bcox@gmu.edu (Brad Cox)
Subject: Re: OP-ED ON TV / PUBLIC


Jeff Briggs wrote
> 
>The brutality and evil of the
>essence of the Soviet system (its totalitarianism and viewing people
>as means rather than ends, as well as its clumsy planned economy) is
>unquestionable, but that does not mean that humane means of sharing
>the good things of life more equitably than under capitalism are
>inevitably and forever impossible, or that if possible, are
>undesireable.

This was precisely the point of my USPS, hospital, university and 
soviet bureaucracy examples. I wasn't even thinking about 
totalitarianism. The soviet system is bleak, grey, ugly, boring. 
The same miasma cloaks every public good I've ever experienced.

You see the public good as "humane means of sharing the good things 
of life". I see the public good as grey, flat, cold, uncaring. A 
place for trajedy of the commons problems to fester.

You see markets as the problem. I see markets as the solution.

How can email get us around this?

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