Posted on 03/17/2005 2:16:09 PM PST by Semper_Volo
Last week, there were several comments in Carnival of the Capitalists that people would like to see more articles highlighting the benefits of capitalism. This got me thinking about a conversation I had years ago at the beach:
Hanging out at the beach one day with a distant family member, we got into a discussion about capitalism and socialism. In particular, we were arguing about whether brute labor, as socialism teaches, is the source of all wealth (which, socialism further argues, is in turn stolen by the capitalist masters). The young woman, as were most people her age, was taught mainly by the socialists who dominate college academia nowadays. I was trying to find a way to connect with her, to get her to question her assumptions, but was struggling because she really had not been taught many of the fundamental building blocks of either philosophy or economics, but rather a mish-mash of politically correct points of view that seem to substitute nowadays for both.
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Woops, meant to post this under Blogger/Personal. Apologies all.
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That was a pretty decent column. Good luck with your blog (if that is your blog).
Worth repeating.
Disclosure: I am not Italian.
Venice to be precise.
Support for trade with the silk trade route to the east by ship.
Venice was extremely important for trade, but Florence was innovative for financial products and the whole Tuscany/Romagna/Adige region was extremely innovative in craftsmanship and design.
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