[lbo-talk] the gains from variety

[Michael Dawson]

If I'm so messing up your meaning, what is it?  What have I gotten wrong?  I
wrote that freedom of choice was fundamental to human welfare, and you wrote
back saying that might be ethnocentric and that freedom of choice might be
over-rated.  People, you argued, were quite happy living in traditional
societies that didn't prize freedom of choice and individuality like we do.
What's missing in my comprehension of what you've said?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Miles Jackson" <cqmv at pdx.edu>
To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] the gains from variety


>
>
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Michael Dawson -PSU wrote:
>
> > No, you seem to have a hard time understand where you're coming from.
The
> > fact that people think they're freer under capitalism than they really
are
> > is about as trite as you could get when talking in this forum.  What you
are
> > trying to do is to use people's present illusions about their freedom of
> > choice as a way of suggesting that freedom of choice itself is
over-rated
> > and an ethnocentric fetish.  That's horseshit.
>
> Thanks for the well reasoned argument.  Think a little harder.
>
> Miles
>
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