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To: RMF who wrote (42238)	3/18/2010 11:58:13 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 71588

You don't want that pig farm there for all the obvious reasons. You don't provide any jobs and the pig farm provides 200, so WHO's the capitalist and WHO's the socialist in THAT case? Neither is socialist, at least not without other points being added to one or both of them. Socialist can mean someone who believes in or supports socialism or is a member of a socialist party, so either of you could be socialist. Assuming that doesn't apply to either the pig farm owner or you, and assuming the pig farm isn't government owned, or so entwined with the government as to almost be government owned, and that the same applies to you house than their is no socialist/socialism involved here in any clear way. Its not something with a very sharp absolute dividing line, but it does have a definition that can be applied. Many things are clearly socialist, many are clearly not, its just that there are a lot of borderline cases (but I don't see your example as presented, as being one).