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Sunday, September 27, 2009
Poverty is OK
Robin Hanson looks forward to being poor. But I fear the path there won't take us to the anonymous semi-contentment of the Dark Ages, because it passes through population crash first.
The really rich seem to carry on working hard even when most people would think they don't need to. How much does tax affect their behaviour, other than to shop around between regimes?
AnticitizenOne - I hear this all the time. However, most of the engineers and scientists that I know work far harder than necessary, since they are compulsives. In the business world, one might look at Sweden, where they are just as productive as elsewhere.
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Poverty is NOT OK, especially when there's no reason to be poor.
ReplyDeleteThe only reason the U.K. will be poor is if the state punishes (even more) those lifting us out of poverty.
The really rich seem to carry on working hard even when most people would think they don't need to. How much does tax affect their behaviour, other than to shop around between regimes?
ReplyDeleteExactly. Forcing the more productive to leave isn't a good policy.
ReplyDeleteAnd with world government, there won't be anywhere to leave to.
ReplyDeleteThen the productive will work for less of their time.
ReplyDeleteAnticitizenOne - I hear this all the time. However, most of the engineers and scientists that I know work far harder than necessary, since they are compulsives. In the business world, one might look at Sweden, where they are just as productive as elsewhere.
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