[net.politics.theory] What is "capitalism" HERE COMES MR.BILL'S DOG

ec120bgt@sdcc3.UUCP (ANDREW VARE) (05/26/85)

> > Using the "*human labor*" method you will
> > accumulate 10,000 balusters in ten years; using the capitalist
> > method you will make 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 in the tenth year.
> > If capitalism were allowed to flourish, everyone in the world would
> > soon be rich;  under the socialist regime of squabbling over the
> > pieces of an ever-shrinking pie, we will all soon be utterly equal
> > in wretched poverty.
> > 
> > --JoSH
> 
Perhaps some mention of decreasing returns-to-scale should be given
here? Come on-even rabbits dont proliferate that fast!

ATV