EDU: Public Schools (Was: Re: [extropy-chat] Gametheoryofcommoncold

[Samantha Atkins]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:23:30 -0500
"Technotranscendence" <neptune at superlink.net> wrote:
> The fact is that actually working, creating, etc. does more overall to
> help others than charity.  Nothing wrong with charity, but if most
> people didn't do productive things and interact through trade, most of
> humanity would have to die out.  Simply volunteering and reshuffling
> wealth would not improve much.  Wealth has to be created before it can
> be given -- or redistributed.:)
>

It depends on what you voluntarily do.  Many tasks can be done for pay or as a volunteer and have precisely equal value.  Volunteers also take on a lot of jobs that it would be hard to produce a viable business plan around but nonetheless add quite a bit of real longterm value that certainly is not simply "reshuffling wealth".   Wealth does not only consist of that which is bought and sold in the market place.
 
- samantha