Re: ESSAY: Steven Weinberg on Today's Utopias

From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Mon Jan 10 2000 - 16:42:54 MST


>> [The Free-Market Utopia]
>>
>> Whatever purposes may be served by rewarding the talented,
>> I have never understood why untalented people deserve less
>> of the world's good things than other people.
>
>Not very bright for a physicist. Rewarding the *productive*
>serves to *create more* so that *everyone* is a winner.
>
>BM
>

The talented _deserve_ more of the world's good things in proportion as the
talented _create_ more of the world's good things. The fact that Weinberg has
"never understood" this, indicates a serious hole in his perception of reality.

J. R.



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