Re: Deming on systems thinking

[Kromkowski@aol.com]

Dear David:
 
As usual a thoughtful post on the DEN.  (I tend not to post just read  
because for the most part almost everything has already be said and discussed on  
the DEN over the last 10 or 11 years.  Just peruse the archive.)
 
Your comment, below, however, I think is only partly true.
 
"2   The elimination of waste creates wealth - and all gain from  it. "
 
Elimination of waste does help create more wealth.  But it is not  clear that 
all will gain from it, necessarily.
 
Henry George in his 1879 work Progress and Poverty asked the  question:  why 
amidst the tremendous (and "waste eliminating") scientific  advances of the 
day was there still poverty especially in our great urban  centers?  We could 
ask the same question today.   He suggested  that we take a look at the "Land 
Question",  I think he remains correct,  with some tiny modications which we 
need not discuss.
 
The problem is that no matter how vigorously and ubiquitously we  might see 
Deming transformational ideas be put into  practice, we still have the problem 
that we must "be" at some location in  the universe to Labor and employ 
Capital in furtherance of our  Labor.   The price for being at that "some location" 
is "Rent" of  Land.  So long as Rent must be paid out of Labor and Capital and 
so long as  the "Rent" does not go to all people, not all will necessarily 
gain from the  increase in wealth from the elimination of waste.
 
The Remedy is to gradually move toward the  "Single Tax" -- i.e. gradually 
replacing taxes on Labor and Capital  with a sole tax on Land Value.
 
It seems to me that the Demingnistas and the Georgists need to get together  
on the true NEW ECONOMICS.
 
John David  Kromkowski
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