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To: tejek who wrote (360678)	11/28/2007 6:53:33 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1576293

He properly equates forced sharing with lack of freedom, but he doesn't equate all sharing with lack of freedom. The Plymouth colony didn't just have sharing, it had socialist agriculture, all food going in to a communal pot. That worked horribly, than they changed the system and had much better harvest. Earlier a similar change worked for Jamestown. Later a switch to collectivized agriculture in the Soviet Union resulted in many millions of deaths. The record for socialized agriculture is rather abysmal. One defect in Stossel's article is that sometimes he substitutes the word "sharing" for "collectivized agriculture", or "socialism". I think he's trying to use simpler words for his audience but it results in less precision. He's clearly not making the case against sharing in general, but I suppose I can see how you got that impression.