Image via WikipediaLexcen is always keen to offer his advice to leaders in government. My ideas are invaluable as they are free.We are all aware of the economic demise that has struck the world economy.
We are all aware that climate change threatens our very existence.
We know that world poverty is unacceptable and must be addressed.
Here is where the radical solutions for difficult times comes to the fore.
In a dazzling moment of revelation to equal that of the archangel Gabriel speaking to that illiterate gigolo in the land of camel jockeys and towel heads comes the revelation of Lexcen.
When the blindfold was removed and the brilliance of the light of a thousand suns overwhelmed him, Lexcen was struck dumb with the idea that had the power to change the world.
In a word, the word was PRIVATIZATION.
And it came to pass that Lexcen would walk amongst the poor and the powerful as an equal and preach the word nay the gospel of PRIVATIZATION.
It was time for governments all around the world to sit up and take note. Privatize the economy.If privatization was good, then too much privatization was not enough.
And the people cried hail Lexcen, for the word of the invisible hand has been spoken through the prophet Lexcen.
Privatization of all economies would be our savior. Privatization would end world poverty and repair the sub-prime crisis. Hail Lexcen.
Privatization would take care of the environment and reduce greenhouse gases. Hail Lexcen.
Privatization would cause an end to world conflict and nations would co-operate like never before in the spirit that is the invisible hand.
Hail Lexcen, for the message has been revealed and in the words of the other great prophet, "for the times they are a changing".
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3 comments:
...and this addresses the problem of world poverty how? Shouldn't we all wallow in the impoverished state of the least common denominator by eliminating the concept of property and holding all our possessions in common? How can the Rawlsian man live with himself knowing that there's no "social justice" in privatization unless certain pre-conditions have been met (see the 2nd principle)?
Change. Yes we can. Believe, hon!
You say that you don't believe in the "invisible hand" yet you rely upon it to take care of the poor (trickle down). How can that be?
What is your personal belief, then?
I personally believe that an admixture of public and private actors is a good thing, provided the public sphere can resist the temptation to constantly meddle around the edges so as to pick individual winners and losers in the game (as they were trying to do w/subprimes and as they do with minority set-aside contracts).
In other words, I think the invisible hand works fine so long as the public sphere keeps it simple AND keeps it's damn thumbs off the scales trying to tilt the playing field and create specific economic outcomes for individual private players by constantly changing the rules of the game in mid-play.
The invisible hand, as it functions today, is a protean shape shifter who's constantly building procrustean beds, selecting and tying down specific victims, sawing off their limbs and then reattaching those limbs to a favored corporate hecatoncheire burning the bed, and then repeating the process.
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