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[log in to unmask] (Mason Gaffney)
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Wed Jun 28 10:06:37 2006
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Inequality of income is one thing; inequality of landownership is another.  
The difference is that the quantity of land is fixed, so A can get more only  
by arranging that everyone else has less.  The converse is also true: the  
landless can get land only by arranging to take some from those who have  
some, preferably those who have a lot more than they need for any reasonable  
purpose.  
  
Pareto and his followers today deftly rule this out of bounds - mustn't make  
anyone worse off, "no-no" - but it is the hard fact every society must face  
in the end.  
  
Mason Gaffney  

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