From: Paul Cockshott (wpc@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jun 30 2008 - 11:11:26 EDT
DOGAN: «"when everyone's entitled to get as much for himself as he can, all available property, however much there is of it, is bound to fall into the hands of a small minority, which means that everyone else is poor." How are you going to face this challange.» I think that IAN WRIGHT summarized pretty well the answer: «If a society had different rules that controlled the distribution of income -- in other words different macro-level constraints -- you would get much more egalitarian distributions of wealth even with markets.» ---------------------- Depends what you mean by more egalitarian. Ian is right at a technical level, one would expect a negative exponential income distribution under market socialism rather than a power law distribution. But a negative exponential distribution can still be very uneven, and this uneveness is the soil from which pressures for full scale capitalism inevitably grow. _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
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