freedom of the press

[Stephen J. Bobick]

> Yoshimasa Tsuji wrote:
> > I remember having heard this decades ago. An Austrian economist
> > in the early 1920's argued for the impossibility of a Socialist
> > economy as it lacks the measure with which to calculate the quantity
> > of economic goods. Theoretically he was right, but contrary to his
> > prediction, the Soviet Union survived much, much longer than he
> > had expected. More than that, the standard of living indeed improved
> > under socialism (longer life expectancy, improved sewage system, etc.)

If you kill off enough people in any society, the standard of living for
those that remain will be better (same amount of "stuff" to be shared by
less).  This is all the more true, when many of those killed off first
spend a few years working as slaves (building canals, subways, and so
on).

-- Stepan Bobyk

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