Re: [OPE] FWD: doctors, barbers and vets

> These things are all relative, compared to Haiti Cuba is fairly rich.

 
Hi Paul C:
 
Yeah, well, compared to Burundi Haiti is fairly rich.
 
The point I was making is that the form in which labor is allocated
has to do with the character of the mode of production, not simply
or primarily whether a nation is fairly rich.
 
Jerry
 
 
> > A society has to be fairly rich to afford many doctors, but the same could be said of naval architects or
> > electrical engineers, all are expensive to train.
>
>
> Hi Paul C:
>
> Cuba isn't faily rich but they have many doctors (/capita). But,
> at least in my way of thinking, the value relationship doesn't
> in Cuba determine who who are doctors, how many doctors there are, or the
> nature of medical care. The allocation of labour in Cuban society is
> fundamentally different from that where the law of value rules.
>
>
> In solidarity, Jerry
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