In the remainder of his response, Block leaves aside the specifics of political economy (and thus the vast majority of what I wrote) to riff about egalitarianism as a general moral impulse. Much of ...
“Capitalism has done much to develop the economic machinery of the modern world to the point where all of this is possible. But it is long since time to move past the capitalist phase of our history ...
“According to that tried and true statement, ‘wealthier is healthier.’ Free enterprise leads to greater wealth and, thus, to greater health and longevity, ceteris paribus.” “I’m a democratic socialist ...