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- From: pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Trade War?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.201929.12721@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 20:19:29 GMT
- Article-I.D.: beaver.1992Nov19.201929.12721
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- In article <1992Nov18.082104.24909@midway.uchicago.edu> hh15@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Nov12.183042.23658@beaver.cs.washington.edu> pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis) writes:
- >:If we can't build
- >:stable, healthy economies within the confines of a national boundary(*),
- >:what makes us think we can do it within the confines of the entire
- >:planet ?
- >
- > How about this: Talking about each individual's life.
- >There's nothing wrong with having to buy houses not made by oneself,
- >food not grown by oneself, clothes not sewed by oneself, and so on,
- >but have the necessities of one's life dependent on selling things and
- >buying things to other such individuals that s/he does not control or
- >even necessarily share much with is a mistake. If one can't build
- >stable, healthy autarkic lifestyle all by himself, ......
-
- Presumably, there is some scale at which you believe self-sufficiency
- is possible and perhaps even desirable. Perhaps you'd like to tell us
- what that scale is ? A continent ? A planet ? A solar system ?
-
- -- paul
-
-
- --
- hybrid rather than pure; compromising rather than clean; distorted
- rather than straightforward; ambiguous rather than articulated;
- both-and rather than either-or; the difficult unity of inclusion
- rather than the easy unity of exclusion.
-