STILL not done for the night
The crazy week is over but the craziness isn't.
My machine is a functional as necessary, but not everything has been reinstalled yet…I forgot how many programs I use on a regular basis, and how extensively configured much of it is. It's been fun reviewing, installing and disposing but I need a break now, so I thought I'd return to yesterday's last post of the day; specifically to this part of my response:
If you want equal distribution of income, move to a socialist nation and stop trying to push it on the rest of us true Americans.But I don't want equal distribution of income. Never even suggested it. Maybe now that this slightly crazed week is coming to an end I'll consider writing up a position that will help folks avoid such an assumption…anyone who really wants to, anyway.
Most folks take a pretty theoretical position on politics, economics and such. I think words become symbol, such that "socialist nation" means something (i.e., a place where everyone is allocated the same resources) that does not, has not ever, and (given my understanding of humans) looks to me like it CAN not, exist. People assume because one makes a coherent sequence of words that the sequence has meaning. Any time someone mentions solving social problems by free market methods, they've as much as saddled up a unicorn.
As I said, I don't expect or even want to see an equal distribution of income, nor of wealth. I recognize that much of the material advantage of the European diaspora was the result of people competing for power and influence. Tacky as it may sound said like that, the result has been the potential for freeing the planet from fear…or burying the planet under it.
What I want is the recognition of that option, and a clear explanation of chosen direction.
Somewhat less grandiosely, I'd like to see subsidized subsistence. A floor beneath which one can't fall. Right now, the competition is such that you could starve to death, die of exposure, if you lose…and that simply isn't necessary. Americans should be guaranteed survival in their own nation.
