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There will always be an elite. You can have one that takes responsibility for the whole community, or one that takes care of itself only. Using money as a yardstick seems to favor the second kind of elites only.

I much prefer the capital allocation of the French technocats after WWII than the current one. They took pride in building systems that worked, not just in accumulating money.

Finance distorts the incentives by allowing selfish personal ones to be fulfilled via macroeconomic tools.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 08:44:02 AM EST
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The difference is what to do now, and what to do when the left is in power (including punishing those responsible).

Happy New Year to you too, by the way!

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Thu Jan 1st, 2009 at 09:20:21 AM EST
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