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Re: RE: Roemer and Veneziani


"Devine, James" wrote:
>
>>
> The "workers don't save" assumption, by the way, is used by some extreme
> right-wingers to suggest that capitalists are rational and workers aren't
> so. The assumption should be dropped.
>

This goes back to Plato. He described "Democratic Man" as living only in
the present -- and implies that that is a choice or the expression of
the inner being of the _demos_, with only a small number of people being
able to live in the future, and they were the natural rulers.

Carrol
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