The legendary stupidity of George W. Bush, whose rich parents and crony friends bought him passing grades and much more, or the incompetence of Federal Emergency Management Agency bureaucrats during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 are both strong arguments against this view.
“I think we are welcomed,” said Bush when asked about Vice President Dick Cheney’s predictions that U.S. troops would be greeted with thanks by Iraqis. “But it was not a peaceful welcome.” When Brazilian President Luiz Ignácio “Lula” da Silva showed him a map of Brazil, Bush exclaimed, “Wow! Brazil is big.”
There are many other examples that could be cited of presidents, industrialists and bureaucrats with limited, if non-existent, abilities.
In our society nothing is done if it isn’t profitable. In a society run by the collective producers, these problems could be solved because social need, rather than the market, would determine how decisions are made.
2007-02-23
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