[lbo-talk] why Prince is right

Mike Beggs mikejbeggs at gmail.com
Sun Jul 11 19:11:15 PDT 2010


On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:43 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:


> what makes it special, to call it a commodity only if it is paid for with
> money? i mean, what's at stake?

I thought I answered that in the previous post – that when you have a commodity to sell, you can demand that people pay you if they want the commodity. When you don’t you can’t.


> of course, you can say all this is about competitive individualism, and it
> will all go away in the socialist future. this is Carrol's answer. Few
> people ever accept his answer. Perhaps you do?

But isn't it you who is invoking a shift in attitudes to solve the problem - that people stop seeing free stuff as free? Whereas Gar, Julio and I have been talking institutions?

Mike Beggs



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