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How the Bad Guys hijacked the 'Good Guy' label: it's the economists' fault | 47 comments (47 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: How the Bad Guys hijacked the 'Good Guy' label (4.00 / 2)

Well, if you don't care about individual dignity it's hard to see any problems with economic organisation.

But if you do care then you have to manage the economy, because left to itself it's going to look a lot like a jungle.

Bush is a symptom, not the disease.

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon May 28th, 2007 at 08:22:34 AM EST
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Re: How the Bad Guys hijacked the 'Good Guy' label (none / 1)

I see a lot of management in modern economy, but a jungle might look like not a bad place by comparison. The understanding of individual dignity does not go further than the 10 Biblical commandments, or even legal technicalities. Minimal wages, contract regulation and more power to the labour restrict your freedom, as "they" say.

I think that dominating greed is abnormal in Nature. There are no licenses and tax incentives there.

by das monde on Mon May 28th, 2007 at 09:14:18 AM EST
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Re: How the Bad Guys hijacked the 'Good Guy' label (none / 1)

Yes, there is management as a monoculture. When you remove management from a monoculture you get infestation by weeds and pests [maybe that's what "liberalisation" has produced?]. So what you need is better management (permaculture), not lack of management.

Bush is a symptom, not the disease.

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon May 28th, 2007 at 09:25:01 AM EST
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