[lbo-talk] socially irresponsible investment

[T Fast]

>
> Tully's talking about creating a world in which there are no big 
> businesses. In which case, what is small would actually be quite 
> influential within the lifestyle enclave itself. I'm curious, not being an 
> economist, how you'd examine the economic impact of a small 100 employee 
> factory in a small town of, say, 1000. What was the typical size of the 
> Greek polis? Or, rather, what do people think a small enclave might look 
> like in this utopia? Is the economy extremely local, with everything being 
> produced and distributed within a geographic region with as little 
> dependency on the rest of the world as possible?
>
> Would crop failure be a problem under those conditions? What if a few 
> individuals mismanaged things so badly that the whole community was sent 
> into a spiral of recession? What if they were actually cooking the books, 
> robbing the utopian polis?
>
> Why would another utopian polis rush to the aid of another utopian polis? 
> If they're merely eking out a living themselves, would they have surplus 
> to give to the freeloaders? Would they want to establish rules as to 
> whether or not the other failing community was truly worthy of their aid? 
> what about natural disasters? What costs go up in the absence of the 
> economies of scale? Wouldn't the tax burden increase?
>
> Rambling q's.
>
> k

All good questions and all questions I have wanted to ask our anarchist 
friends for some time.

Travis