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McFly — (archived)

If you are still slinging fries when you are 40, maybe the problem isn't the economic system.

A brutal truth.

I think what we need to distrubute isn't wealth, but rather opportunity...and the poorly-named "Free Market" might just be the best way to do that. We've seen repeatedly through history that central planning (whatever it's details) is a very poor way to empower the people. But by allowing, as much as possible, the people themselves to decide what's important and what isn't--essentially, what they'll buy and what they won't--we acheive the widest and most equitable distribution of opportunity. It's not perfect**, of course, but it just might be something approaching fair.

**Perfect, I think you'd all agree, would be me as Grand High Pooh-Bah. That'd rock, wouldn't it? Sadly, it's not the world we live in.

ps. I think I know where Lindy is coming from, and have often had similar sentiments myself. As far as I can see though, there's a point at which forced wealth-redistribution goes beyond understandable taxes and becomes simple theft.

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