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Snipped to portion addressed. Longer post above.
And we do that one individual heart at a time.
If you are asking why I consider the free-market system far better than the bartering one or the statism one, it's because it has actually worked to raise people from poverty and allows for that individual heart to be charitable.
The bartering system (that my son-in-law uses) doesn't. It only has people remaining in the status quo (and doesn't generate enough money to be truly helpful to others.
The statism (or command) system, only allows folks to raise to a common poverty (except for the elite) and therefore it does not allow individuals to be charitable even if they want. Because of all the red tape, and regulations, only the elite benefit. The poor get to remain poor and unable to help their neighbor, who is also in grinding poverty.
Only the free-market system encourages folks to "be the best that they can be"--to rise to the level they are prepared to work, to lift folks out of poverty (if they so choose.) They have "skin in the game" (like the people in the co-ops who benefit when things go well for them.) And when (and because) they are managing to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps", they'll have extra to BE as charitable as Jesus wants us to be. Remember, it's not the system that allows us to love and respect and do good to our neighbor, it's the individual.
I think that what you despise, is cronyism. Cronyism is giving special deals to one's friends at the expense of others. I've seen it in both statist (command) and in the free-market economic systems. (Haven't seen it in the bartering economic system, but I'm sure it's there. The system doesn't seem used enough that I can tell.) Elites do it all the time in statist (command) economies. And that's what is awful in the free-market system when it happens. That is your sending jobs to China (GE) or having secret banking accounts in Switzerland or the Cayman Islands, or the tax evasion (Timothy Geithner, or Charlie Rangle, and didn't Kerry do that with his yacht) etc. It's not just the free market system that is guilty of being inhumane to man--those statist (command) systems are just as bad and even worse because they don't want people to be free at all. Still Systems aren't responsible for the actions of individuals--individuals are responsible for their own actions or inactions.
When the entire international economic system is unjust, we have to change it.
And we do that one individual heart at a time.
Also, why is any economic system that does not support the economic well being of the common man of the world considered good?
If you are asking why I consider the free-market system far better than the bartering one or the statism one, it's because it has actually worked to raise people from poverty and allows for that individual heart to be charitable.
The bartering system (that my son-in-law uses) doesn't. It only has people remaining in the status quo (and doesn't generate enough money to be truly helpful to others.
The statism (or command) system, only allows folks to raise to a common poverty (except for the elite) and therefore it does not allow individuals to be charitable even if they want. Because of all the red tape, and regulations, only the elite benefit. The poor get to remain poor and unable to help their neighbor, who is also in grinding poverty.
Only the free-market system encourages folks to "be the best that they can be"--to rise to the level they are prepared to work, to lift folks out of poverty (if they so choose.) They have "skin in the game" (like the people in the co-ops who benefit when things go well for them.) And when (and because) they are managing to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps", they'll have extra to BE as charitable as Jesus wants us to be. Remember, it's not the system that allows us to love and respect and do good to our neighbor, it's the individual.
I think that what you despise, is cronyism. Cronyism is giving special deals to one's friends at the expense of others. I've seen it in both statist (command) and in the free-market economic systems. (Haven't seen it in the bartering economic system, but I'm sure it's there. The system doesn't seem used enough that I can tell.) Elites do it all the time in statist (command) economies. And that's what is awful in the free-market system when it happens. That is your sending jobs to China (GE) or having secret banking accounts in Switzerland or the Cayman Islands, or the tax evasion (Timothy Geithner, or Charlie Rangle, and didn't Kerry do that with his yacht) etc. It's not just the free market system that is guilty of being inhumane to man--those statist (command) systems are just as bad and even worse because they don't want people to be free at all. Still Systems aren't responsible for the actions of individuals--individuals are responsible for their own actions or inactions.
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