[A2k] Re: [Upd-discuss] IPI Report: NN Makes Economic Sense

[Michael S. Hart]

This balance must be better than Stallman seems willing to accept.

Just because "there has never been, nor will there ever be absolute
economic efficiency or fairness" does not mean we should not try to
improve either efficiency or fairness.  If fairness and effciency's
growth had been equal, we would all have experienced the positive's
of the recent economic booms under Reagan and the Bushes instead of
just those who were already making double or triple median incomes,
or quite a bit more.  The higher you were, the higher percentages.

Even now, in this economic fiasco, the rich still get richer to the
point of ridicule when their work is a failure.

Removing the inalienable right to the public domain as such time is
just kicking people while they are already down.

Shame!!!

You can't buy or sell your right to the public domain, which makes,
by definition, it an inalienable right and balance will return, but
obviously not this way.

Shame!!!


On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Richard Stallman wrote:

>       Very true.  However there has never been, nor will there ever
>     be absolute economic efficiency or fairness.  As such a ballance
>     must be sought that everyone can live with, a very difficult
>     task to achieve and maintain.
>
> These days, we have a lot of economic efficiency in production and
> very little fairness.  As a result, lots of production goes into
> activities that are harmful in the long term, and most of the world's
> people get no benefit from all the production.
>
> Clearly we need increased concern with fairness.
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