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To: paul_philp who wrote (32265)	6/13/2002 1:52:00 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

Income distribution and elites are words I would be unlikely to use. I would say a system of property rights, a system of laws and a relatively free market. I think we want the same thing though. I suspected those were not words which came easily to your lips. As for your three items above, it's my impression that Saudi Arabia has the first two and lacks only the last. And, it's also my impression, that should the last appear it will not produce a middle class, by itself. As for my comments about income distribution and elites, I'm not at all certain how one gets from the present distribution in which elites have almost all the resources, to one in which there is a sizable middle class but I would guess it will only happen with the appearance of a different economy, perhaps a more information based one. Now that last term is your language. But that economy is a very, very long way away.