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Rodney · 11-04-2005, 04:43 PM

It needs to be structured so that, for individuals, serving the common good is obviously in their own best interest. Not just in some moral, idealistic, long-term way, but as very nut-and-bolts, here-and-now way of improving their own lot.

Not sure how we'd get there. But it's got to beat the current system, which best rewards those who pile up the biggest hoard of money while putting fewer and fewer restraints on how they do that.

I guess we'd have to somehow change the values of society. A nice, long, wicked depresssion might help plow the ground for something like this. But who wants to live through something like that?

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Rodney Observant Ruminant Location: Rich Wannabe Hippie Town	It needs to be structured so that, for individuals, serving the common good is obviously in their own best interest. Not just in some moral, idealistic, long-term way, but as very nut-and-bolts, here-and-now way of improving their own lot. Not sure how we'd get there. But it's got to beat the current system, which best rewards those who pile up the biggest hoard of money while putting fewer and fewer restraints on how they do that. I guess we'd have to somehow change the values of society. A nice, long, wicked depresssion might help plow the ground for something like this. But who wants to live through something like that? Last edited by Rodney; 11-04-2005 at 04:45 PM..