Proclaiming Liberalism, and What It Now Means

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Flint

... If there is a finite amount of stuff you can possess...

I think sometimes I subconsciously include qualifiers, even while ignoring their implications. At any rate, UG sliced right through this one with an enchanted Ocaam's Razor +3.

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

On the present planetary scale, Flint, I'm not sure there is a finite limit. ...

That's what I get for not questioning assumptions (and I usually spend all day trying to find new ways of doing that!) UT continues...

Originally Posted by Undertoad

It's not a zero-sum game because the output of workers converts things that are not valuable into things that are valuable.

The major component of the $300 Intel multi-core microprocessor is less than a penny's worth of sand. ...

I think, at the bottom of what I'm saying is the nagging fact that you can't eat microchips. Well, you can't eat sand, either, but what I mean is we could "run out" of, say, life-giving fresh water.

In that case, the Middle-East might face the awkward situation of having converted from water-hoarding tribes, to petroleum-hoarding tribes, only to convert back to water-hoarding tribes.

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Capitalism works better because...

Please stop comparing things to other things. As rightful owner of this threadjack, I forbid it.