22. Communal Commitment, Private Flourish

Communal Commitment, Private Flourish
Bob Komives
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Government organizes group knowledge in ways that individuals cannot or wish not.

Government can create a system of defense that is more effective and occupies fewer people than if everyone were to try to defend himself. Without this system the group might be vulnerable to attack. Productivity could suffer because too much time is spent on defense and fear.

Government can guarantee food and shelter to someone who wishes to experiment with a new system for food production--a system that could benefit the whole group. Government induces a temporary flow of wealth away from the rest of the group to the experimenter. If the experiment succeeds, that wealth that had flowed away from most of the individuals in the group will return to them with dividends.

If in our family
we lack communal decision and commitment,
private life does not flourish.
If in our government,
we lack communal decision and commitment
private enterprise does not flourish.

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:: Bob Komives, Fort Collins © 2006 :: Plum Local IV :: 22. Communal Commitment, Private Flourish ::
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