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To: Suma who wrote (37528)	7/3/2005 1:04:08 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (2) of 90947

Suma, there's no reason to get defensive about your values - i.e. valuing equality. What I was cautioning against was the notion that one could engineer equality of condition by such things as imposing one's views (or a party's views or the majority's views) of what is a "just" price for someone's product or labor in place of a free market determined price. And contrary to your dismissal of my references to Marxist socialism as merely a prejudicial association, it is really entirely relevant. Equality imposed by authority, whether dictatorial or "democratic" authority, is the same thing - a huge mistake. You can't engineer true equality of condition. You can, however, engineer equal misery for the masses with relative prosperity for those holding the authority. Or you can engineer (relative) equality of opportunity by setting the rules of the game to eliminate unfair advantages and disadvantages, and let the chips fall where they may. That's what we try to do in societies they understand the importance of economic liberty and it works reasonably well. Certainly better than the alternative - the attempts to engineer equality of condition.

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