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Re: [ox-en] Apple trees (aka capitalism) are bad. What about barter exchange?



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Diego,

I have no issue with consumption levels being hard to sustain, but the US,
without this welfare system, consumes much more energy than Europe, so
'blaming' the welfare system for it seems disingenous; also, capital did not
need to unions and workers agreement to exploit the rest of the world, they
did that way before welfare

so I see that differently, workers and unions were strong enough, and
capital weak enough, and scared of the Soviets, to arrive at a compromise
for european workers ...

we need a global welfare system, not based on high levels of consumption but
on covering essential needs, for the whole world, and blaming european
workers for that is not going to advance that agenda I think

this reasoning also leaves the local elites blameless, which is why I guess
it's a popular meme,

Michel


On 4/25/09, Diego Saravia <diego.saravia gmail.com> wrote:

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2009/4/24 Patrick Anderson <agnucius gmail.com>

Patrick Anderson wrote:
The 2008 US Farm Bill once again pays farmers to NOT grow for the
purpose of keeping prices above costs.

Diego Saravia wrote:
in 2008 people was hungry arround the world

Yes, that's the paradox.

Capitalism requires demand never be met in full,
for to do so would cause price to reach cost.

When price equals cost, profit equals zero.

Complete, un-throttled abundance cannot occur within Capitalism
because abundance destroys profit, yet profit is their measure of
success.

Hunger is *needed* in any system requiring scarcity.




I have another view in that particular problem, (I agree with you in
general)


After world war II, capitalism need to opose Europe to URSS, so they set up
a welfare system in Europe.
For doing that they need to pay more money to they people, like food
producers. Europe unions and social democrats agree in exploit third world
to finance that. They change "world workers unite!"  for "europe workers
living okay at expense of third world workers". So they develop ways to
change exchange rates between food and industrial products (later
services).
Pay less for food and more for tractors. But they need to give money to
farmers in europe, so subvensions. Free all markets arround world, but
agricultural ones.

Now Europe welfare is useless, and very expensive in energy to sustain, so
the crisis emerge and Europe workers will reduce its consumption
level.  All
the wolrd economy will be flatenned, poor and richness will be equally
distributed arround the world.








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