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The private proprietors of capital devote capital resources; and these profiteers will
usually speculate as to what will be the future effective demand for whatever is
produced and provided by their resource allocation decisions.
The natural power of numbers can be seen in the market, where large consumer-
demand numbers can very effectively prompt more allocation of resources to produce
and to provide what a very large multitude/majority is willing to purchase.
"Love is a great beautifier."
-- Louisa May Alcott
"Every epoch, under names more or less specious, has deified its peculiar errors."
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
A valid argument is not the only logical argument. What is valid is not identical with
what is sure, correct, actual, right, and/or true. This means that there can always be
more than one valid argument. If one disagrees with a valid argument, that does not
mean that one believes the valid argument is a lie. It only means that one embraces
and endorses another point of view, another argument, that proceeds from some
very different givens, and that begins with some very fundamental assumptions.
Given one's foundational presuppositions, one can present a valid argument for
one's position. But, often one is astonished at another's assumptions, and amazed
by another's arguments.
One's assumptions and one's arguments are one's opinions. And there are different
opinions on almost every political and economic topic. An educated opinion can be a
valid opinion, even if no opinion can be said to be the only true and correct opinion.
In a competitive capitalist anarchy of greedy conflict and possessive acquisitions,
without a monopoly-power capitalist state arbitrating, adjudicating, and administering
capitalist laws and capitalist justice, it would be a very simple thing for a robber-baron
with enough influence and enough power over enough people to overwhelm and to
overpower a territory, oppressing any and every opposition. In a competitive anarchy,
the military doctrine of overwhelming force would be applicable. A numerical majority
would certainly constitute an overwhelming force. If a robber-baron can win enough
partisans to his or her side, say a majority of the population, then it is sure that this
robber-baron will come out the victor.
"Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs."
-- Marlene Dietrich
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Posted by rallen2 on 2008-03-30 18:45:00 | Rating: | Views: 36
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