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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: Capitalism and Socialism
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:39:38 GMT
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- clc5q@hemlock.cs.Virginia.EDU (Clark L. Coleman) writes:
- >Paraphrasing Winston Churchill, as well as my memory allows:
- >"The weakness of capitalism is that not all share the wealth equally,
- >while the strength of socialism is that all share equally its misery."
-
- Pretty close...
-
- The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The
- inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -- Churchill
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- You won't learn much about capitalism at a university. How could you?
- Capitalism is a matter of risks and rewards, and a tenured professor doesn't
- have much to do with either. -- Pournelle.
- --
- Beam me up, Scotty!
-