[ExI] keynes vs hayek again, was: RE: 3d printers for sale

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Tue Aug 28 13:37:09 UTC 2012


On 28 August 2012 00:57, Jeff Davis <jrd1415 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Charlie Stross
> <charlie.stross at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Or even further: *why* do we consider it useful or morally good for
> everyone to make a tangible contribution?
>
> Can we please consider dumping the Calvinist notion that to be moral
> and to deserve what you get, and for it to have value, you must work
> for it?
>

This is not the only plausible rationale behind that.

For instance, a very traditional view is that a given community is
automatically entitled to demand that its members support each other and
the community as such.

This is certainly true for anthills, eg, and human communities factually
governed by such views might even have an evolutionary/game theory/memetic
edge on other ones.

In history, however, this contribution never needed be "tangible" in the
literal sense of the word. In fact, division of labours allowed societies
to have members specialised and permanently engaged in poetry, history,
medicine, politics, religion, mathematics, writing, advocacy, trade, etc.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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