Comments on: Traffic Jams and the Free Market http://thri.ca/archives/358 Veritas Pulchritudo Est Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:25:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ariel R. http://thri.ca/archives/358/comment-page-1#comment-10187 Ariel R. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:51:52 +0000 http://www.thrica.com/?p=358#comment-10187 Thanks, I think I get you more now. Still, though, some people are stuck doing when they want to make, and the way things are now, if you have nothing but a high school diploma, you'll probably always just scrape by. But I reckon education is an outside limiting factor, and I'm being tangential as usual. In the meantime, I'm going manufacture some dirt cakes. :D Gosh, as long as I call them organic, I know folks around here will buy them. Thanks, I think I get you more now. Still, though, some people are stuck doing when they want to make, and the way things are now, if you have nothing but a high school diploma, you’ll probably always just scrape by. But I reckon education is an outside limiting factor, and I’m being tangential as usual.

In the meantime, I’m going manufacture some dirt cakes. :D Gosh, as long as I call them organic, I know folks around here will buy them.

]]> By: thrica http://thri.ca/archives/358/comment-page-1#comment-10186 thrica Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:39:21 +0000 http://www.thrica.com/?p=358#comment-10186 It's not to say that everyone has equal opportunities in life; that's obviously not true. But you don't even have to make something physical to start off - a resource you always have is labor. You can always do, even if you can't make. And the better you can do, the more you can make. That's true on every level of society. Personal responsibility for personal outcomes is good for the person and good for society (not to mention more honest than people like to believe). Passing the buck to the government is good for neither (just look at the welfare class that has arisen since Johnson's Great Society). It’s not to say that everyone has equal opportunities in life; that’s obviously not true. But you don’t even have to make something physical to start off – a resource you always have is labor. You can always do, even if you can’t make. And the better you can do, the more you can make. That’s true on every level of society.

Personal responsibility for personal outcomes is good for the person and good for society (not to mention more honest than people like to believe). Passing the buck to the government is good for neither (just look at the welfare class that has arisen since Johnson’s Great Society).

]]> By: Ariel R. http://thri.ca/archives/358/comment-page-1#comment-10185 Ariel R. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:55:42 +0000 http://www.thrica.com/?p=358#comment-10185 Both, I think, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around what you're saying. So if you start off with dirt, what are you going to make? Dirt cakes? Ambition always has to be supplemented by resources and the help of others, which I consider a resource. Depending on a million little factors, resources and help can be scant or almost non-existent. Equalization of oppurtunity sort of works on the highway, but if you're stuck behind a bicycle on a two-lane, you're not going anywhere, but it's not your fault. Some folks are on a two-lane and stay on the two-lane. Both, I think, but I’m still trying to wrap my head around what you’re saying. So if you start off with dirt, what are you going to make? Dirt cakes? Ambition always has to be supplemented by resources and the help of others, which I consider a resource. Depending on a million little factors, resources and help can be scant or almost non-existent. Equalization of oppurtunity sort of works on the highway, but if you’re stuck behind a bicycle on a two-lane, you’re not going anywhere, but it’s not your fault. Some folks are on a two-lane and stay on the two-lane.

]]> By: thrica http://thri.ca/archives/358/comment-page-1#comment-10184 thrica Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:17:27 +0000 http://www.thrica.com/?p=358#comment-10184 In a traffic jam at least, all the cars are equipped for far better speed than they actually employ. I assume your point of dispute is that not all people are thus equipped, which I would disagree with. The ambitious get resources because the ambitious can provide goods or services that people want. Though we hardly live in a free market society (with consequently less class mobility), I believe people still far overrate the role of preexisting resources in bringing about economic success. Is the lack of resources a cause of economic failure, or the effect of economic failure? In a traffic jam at least, all the cars are equipped for far better speed than they actually employ. I assume your point of dispute is that not all people are thus equipped, which I would disagree with. The ambitious get resources because the ambitious can provide goods or services that people want.

Though we hardly live in a free market society (with consequently less class mobility), I believe people still far overrate the role of preexisting resources in bringing about economic success. Is the lack of resources a cause of economic failure, or the effect of economic failure?

]]> By: Ariel R. http://thri.ca/archives/358/comment-page-1#comment-10183 Ariel R. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:41:03 +0000 http://www.thrica.com/?p=358#comment-10183 Okay. So what if you're an ambitious person with few resources? What if you're driving a 1982 Volvo station wagon down the highway and you can't go faster than 70 because you'll blow up the transmission and you have a Hummer crammed up your tailpipe and there are tractor trailers blocking both lanes?? :O Okay. So what if you’re an ambitious person with few resources? What if you’re driving a 1982 Volvo station wagon down the highway and you can’t go faster than 70 because you’ll blow up the transmission and you have a Hummer crammed up your tailpipe and there are tractor trailers blocking both lanes?? :O

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