> Ron Allen wrote:

>> In a democracy, the citizens must be educated
>> for life in a democracy. An informed citizenry
>> will act differently from how subjects behave in
>> so much of what is called "game theory".

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> Michael Price wrote:

>> Why? What will this "education" do that will
>> cause them to act against their interests?

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> Ron Allen wrote:

>> Educated people have educated interests;
>> ignorant people have ignorant interests.

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> Michael Price wrote:

>> How exactly can an interest be ignorant? A ...

> Ron Allen wrote:

>> The expropriation of wealth is the
>> re-distribution of wealth, because the direct
>> producers of wealth ought to be the direct
>> possessors of wealth. A natural distribution of
>> wealth ought to correspond to an arrangement in
>> which the direct producers are the direct
>> proprietors of what they produce. If this is
>> true, then an unnatural distribution of wealth
>> will conform to an arrangement in which the
>> direct producers are not the direct possessors
>> of what they produce. What is not a natural
>> distribution of wealth is, therefore, an
>> unnatural re-distribution of wealth. And every
>> state exists to secure and to preserve an
>> unnatural, artificial, contrived, unjust, and
>> inhuman re-distribution of wealth.

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