Re: Re: Re: Re: entrepreneurs

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

Why is creating new needs a good thing? --

Gene Coyle

Justin Schwartz wrote:

> >
> >Whoa!  You seem to be leaping from conclusion that conclusion here.  Are
> >you saying that without markets we are all doomed to poverty?  Or that
> >nothing novel will emerge except through markets?
> >
>
> No, evidently I haven't been clear. We need entrepreneurs, in my abstract
> sense of creators and satisfiers of new needs, under any kind of
> postcapitalist society, whether or not it involves markets or profits, if we
> want an eqaulity of riches rather than poverty. I do happen to believe that
> this requires markets, but that is a seperate point. I think we can agree in
> any case, as I think Louis and I agree, that wealth is better than poverty
> and that creating and satisfying new needs, however this is done, is a good
> thing. --jks
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