[impaul99]

Originally Posted by ahimel

I must respectfully disagree. I would argue that selfworkers are more likely to say, "This person is disabled, and therefore useless to me. There is no reason to keep them alive." Worldworkers, since they start from a premise that everyone in the world is worthy of love, would instead argue that disability does not negate one's right to live their life.

Therefore, since I (a fledgling worldworker) think it's a property of selfworkers and you (one more oriented towards selfworking) think it's a property of worldworkers, I think it must be that neither side would engage in it.

Agreed. I was probably thinking what a FEARFUL Worldworker might try to do. A love centred Worldworker (or selfworker) would never do this. I withdraw my comment.

Again, I must respectfully disagree. I am a fledgling worldworker, and fully committed to the capitalist system. Steve is a full-fledged worldworker, and I've noticed no communist tendencies in his writing.

Two distinctions need to be made:
1) As a worldworker, I believe that I should give to others. I have no desire to force you to give to others, which is the communist system.
2) As a capitalist, I retain the right to do with my money as I wish. I wish to build a business where employees can have fun and be engaged, to build nonprofits that bring self-reliance and sustainability into the world, and to surprise people with unexpected gifts that make their day. This is different from the USSR view of capitalism, that assumes that a capitalist will be cutthroat and greedy.

I want to give as much as possible to as many people as possible. Since communism makes people poor and capitalism makes people rich, I support capitalism because (a) it makes me rich, allowing me to give more to others, and (b) it makes others rich, which was the entire goal in the first place.

Once again, I see your point. I think that communism would be something put together out of fear hiding under "It's best for all" excuse. A true, love oriented worldworker, wouldn't follow this path. I do still maintain that it would probably be a fearful worldworker who could fall into the trap of communism more easily than a selfworker.

So I would say it's probably more accurate that a WORLDWorker gone wrong could equal communism. A SELFWorker gone wrong would be a guy who buys an island and seperates himself from the world