Comments on: Are Economic Rights Fundamental Human Rights?

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:12:48 +0000

Economics rights are human rights sounds very much like communism. Economics rights should be championed by individual in a free market world. If everyone in Match.com login does not pay the subscription fee and say it is their economic right to date, then how is anyone going to make money in the free captial market world.

By: Adam Baker

Adam Baker — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:08:08 +0000

It is a new thanks giving day again, happy cooking. I don’t agree with that argument, for a number of reasons, the most important is that people who are having serious economic problems, like they can’t find food to eat, need other human rights, like, for example, the right to freedom of expression. If you’re not getting enough food, and you also don’t have the right to complain about it, it’s a lot worse.farmville cheats

By: Adam Baker

Adam Baker — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:06:39 +0000

It is a new thanks giving day again, happy cooking.Jonny – farmville cheats

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:01:10 +0000

in Business & Economics. Weissbrodt was quoted as saying, “It’s a variant of the argument that first people have to eat, and then we can worry about human rights. I don’t agree with that argument, for a number of reasons, the most important is that people who are having serious economic problems, like they can’t find food to eat, need other human rights, like, for example, the right to freedom of expression. If you’re not getting enough food, and you also don’t have the right to complain about it, it’s a lot worse.” Source: http://www.law.umn.edu/news/faculty.html?mon=May&year=2009 e-commerce implementation | Real Estate Marketing Software

By: Jeffery Smith

Jeffery Smith — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:08:38 +0000

Thanks, those thoughts for sure need airing. Yet I wonder, do we have the right to a certain outcome or to various opportunities? Insuring the income of farmers became corporate welfare for agri-business.While we may have a right to succeed minimally, does that mean others must provide for us? Even if they must, is government superior to charity, family, fraternal lodges, etc? And would the question even arise if we were already practicing geonomics and sharing our society’s surplus?In every society, people spend immense amounts on land, resources, EM spectrum, and other goods not produced by anyone’s labor or capital. Hence that flow of “rent” is a surplus and potentially the largest part of the commons. Ironically, our commonwealth is is a notion that faded even as economic rights arose.But we don’t need politicians and bureaucrats to feed, clothe, shelter, teach, and doctor us. Were we to direct that rent-flow into the pockets of all members of society — via dues and dividends (a la Alaska’s oil dividend) — not only could we reduce, even eliminate, counterproductive taxes and addictive subsidies, then we could all enjoy so much material security that the rest of the economic rights argument becomes moot.Are you a member of BIEN or US Basic Income Group? We’re further along in Europe, but could use press coverage everywhere.

By: Annmarie Moreno

Annmarie Moreno — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:07:33 +0000

I find it funny that we always go back to not having enough food to eat, when the epidemic in America that is also costing the health care expenditures is obesity.

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:20:55 +0000

This a very relevent and insightful article. The notion that Chinese communism weighs basic human necessities over individual rights is a stark contrast with our own failed system. While American health care costs force a lot of its tax payers into home forclosure maybe we should recognize that the freedom of meeting basic needs is a basic human right.