By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - General - Faced with limited resources, how do we distribute them?

If the resources are hookers and blow, then the answer is me.



Around the Network

Like we already do. The title is just a steaming pile neo-commi BS. And try to dist my stuff. From my cold dead hands....



The useful, honest people.

That right there ruled out most businessmen, politicians, bigots (eligious and all other kinds), and I'm sure a few others as well.



Those that create and bring those resources to market get to distribute themselves. Those that do not, get nothing.

 



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 — Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire

To the United States. All of the resources!



Around the Network

What will you guys say to people who don't like the idea of human capital, or think that there isn't free/equal opportunity to succeed in a capitalist society?

What resources or services should the government provide for everybody? Should public education be provided and brought up to par? Or should we encourage a private education market? How do we deal with IPs for "necessities" like vaccines.

Who should get what, and why? By merit?



Akvod said:
What will you guys say to people who don't like the idea of human capital, or think that there isn't free/equal opportunity to succeed in a capitalist society?

What resources or services should the government provide for everybody? Should public education be provided and brought up to par? Or should we encourage a private education market? How do we deal with IPs for "necessities" like vaccines.

Who should get what, and why? By merit?

Labour is a very valuable resource, and education is a corner-stone of more efficient use of that resource. High quality affordable (possibly public) education is important for the development of an economy, and the unfortunate problem in many public education systems is that (in spite of being in school for 10 to 12 years) a large portion of the studendts did not receive a high enough quality of education to make them more efficient than an uneducated worker in a third world country.

Education is a very unusual field because it has not seen the kinds of productivity gains over the past century that most other fields have. If it did, the typical teacher today could teach 60 students and they would have finished the 12 years of curriculum in 6 years. Some of this may be physical limitations in how people learn, but physical limitations have been shattered in most sporting fields as unknown 13 year olds are often better athletes than professionals were 40 years ago.



HappySqurriel said:
Akvod said:
What will you guys say to people who don't like the idea of human capital, or think that there isn't free/equal opportunity to succeed in a capitalist society?

What resources or services should the government provide for everybody? Should public education be provided and brought up to par? Or should we encourage a private education market? How do we deal with IPs for "necessities" like vaccines.

Who should get what, and why? By merit?

Labour is a very valuable resource, and education is a corner-stone of more efficient use of that resource. High quality affordable (possibly public) education is important for the development of an economy, and the unfortunate problem in many public education systems is that (in spite of being in school for 10 to 12 years) a large portion of the studendts did not receive a high enough quality of education to make them more efficient than an uneducated worker in a third world country.

Education is a very unusual field because it has not seen the kinds of productivity gains over the past century that most other fields have. If it did, the typical teacher today could teach 60 students and they would have finished the 12 years of curriculum in 6 years. Some of this may be physical limitations in how people learn, but physical limitations have been shattered in most sporting fields as unknown 13 year olds are often better athletes than professionals were 40 years ago.

What would you say to unskilled workers who do not have the time or ability to get an education/training for another job (example, factory line workers who get laid off)?



You don't "distribute" them to anyone.

Whoever takes them first wins.




Or check out my new webcomic: http://selfcentent.com/

Well, I don't mean to sound inhumane but the developed countries will most likely be able to keep afloat while undeveloped countries will drown. It's like rocketpig said the early bird catches the worm.



PSN ID: KingFate_