Re: Piketty
From: David Heimann (heimanntheworld.com)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 09:22:07 -0700 (PDT)

Hello,

        Further remarks in between line markers.

Regards,
David Heimann
Jamaica Plain Cohousing


Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 05:59:40 +0000 (UTC)
From: Brian Bartholomew <bartholomew.brian [at] yahoo.com>
To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Piketty
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There's a reasonable chance you can assemble 100 people with a
usefully large amount of shared aims.  But you cannot get 350 million
people to have a usefully large amount of shared aims.  This is why
cohos work and governments don't:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

4. Liberals have failed because they have not paid (enough)
attention to fiscal policy. They have focused on social values
instead of the economy that supports or defeats those social
values. Behind all injustice is a fiscal structure that feeds it.
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However, conservatives have failed as well, because they have not paid *enough* attention to social values, thereby creating their own defective fiscal policy.

The world is far more complex than simply "liberal" or "conservative">

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The fiscal structure reveals humans don't all produce the same amount of wealth. Confounding the fiscal redistribution policy behind the fiscal structure, is the problem that humans don't all value things the same. Redistribution by central planning doesn't work at the group size you want it to work at. For groups larger than an extended family, the only known solution is a marketplace price system to collect all the various opinions about who values what how much.

--------------------------------------------------------------- Another known solution is a governance system that also aims to collect all the various opinions about who values what how much. As I mentioned above, the market system has its major defects and the governance system has its major defects -- either by itself is too simple to adequately deal with our complex world. ---------------------------------------------------------------



        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_calculation_debate
        
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Calculation_in_the_Socialist_Commonwealth
        
https://mises.org/library/economic-calculation-socialist-commonwealth/html

Brian


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