| > Speaking about legality is so much better than speaking about morality, yes? It isn't better, nor is it worse; it is merely more objective, that's all. > I wasn't aware we were making economic arguments- after all your original comment ended asking whether it was immoral. Yes, sorry, that was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but you're quite right on this count. I was simply attempting to rubbish an anti-capitalist argument in the article, but it blew up in my face. > Perhaps I am too, call it unrealistic or idealistic, for your taste. That's ok. Who's to say which one of us is 'right'? We can just say that we have profound disagreements about the merits of capitalism as an economic system -- I think that's fair and it shouldn't be a problem in a democracy. > I'm going to believe people like you overlook problems because they have found or earned enough to have the luxury to. You believe that if it gives you any comfort. For now, I'll just continue believing that "economics is the study of the use of scarce resources which have alternative uses" and leave it at that. |