"Martin Rost" rostmartin @ hot mail . com wrote in message
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Doesn't socialism also support subsidies. That is what I see Owen arguing
against. Many turners subsidize their turning sales with their day job
income.
Martin


Fixed prices are not "subsidies?" Of course we will all assume, with Owen's
optimism, that they will be fixed higher, not lower.

In the evil empire days, all Soviet products including those produced by
"craft cooperatives" were priced at the factory. Membership in such co-ops
was, of course, often determined by politics, rather than proficiency.