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In <DDFr-0805982007410...@ddfr.vip.best.com> David Friedman If not, then somebody should tell the U.S. Congress...because that's PMFJI jk
<D...@best.com> writes: Where'd you find this, over the doorway to the U.S. Congress?
>"If enough employment cannot be found to occupy the 25 persons in a
>hundred upon work useful and profitable to the state, I see no
>objection to encouraging employment which serves only for ornament or
>amusement"
>So when everything that can be done to serve the state is done, It's hard to tell absent context, but I think it may be worse. Isn't
>Cantillon thinks it harmless if any remaining labor goes to produce
>things that give people pleasure.
he saying that if "productive work" on behalf of the State can't be
found for those in its employ, then even "make-work" work is justified
in being supported by the State?
obviously the interpretation they take!