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Re: The Way Forward: Raise The Retirement Age
by J.K. Gregg » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:05 pm
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Re: The Way Forward: Raise The Retirement Age
by J.K. Gregg » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:15 pm
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Re: The Way Forward: Raise The Retirement Age
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Re: The Way Forward: Raise The Retirement Age
by G5000 » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:45 pm
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Re: The Way Forward: Raise The Retirement Age
by exploited » Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:54 pm
Both Milton Friedman and The Dharma Bum are wrong.
The only system that works is one that does both things. You can have free trade, and you can have meritocratic capitalism... but that doesn't eliminate the very real, very important need to address the outliers. It doesn't eliminate the need to place definitive limits on what, and to what degree, we can profit off of. Nor does it address the historically proven reality that every nation, no matter how big, or how small, requires a certain amount of welfare in order to exist.
The only system that works is one that does both things. You can have free trade, and you can have meritocratic capitalism... but that doesn't eliminate the very real, very important need to address the outliers. It doesn't eliminate the need to place definitive limits on what, and to what degree, we can profit off of. Nor does it address the historically proven reality that every nation, no matter how big, or how small, requires a certain amount of welfare in order to exist.
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Re: The Way Forward: Raise The Retirement Age
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