On Sunday 12 December 2004 03:16 pm, Dave Phillips wrote: > Greetings: > > I'd like to put this thread in a coffin and drive in the last nail: And I missed it... ...Drag. > USians opining about socialism is as ludicrous as USians opining > about democracy. > > Now, if you wanna know about corporate plutocracies, *that* we can > discuss better than anyone else on this planet. > > "You are a slave, Neo." > > Best, > > dp > > Shayne O'Connor wrote: > >> That's not to say we should be > >>naive about market forces, but there's no need to wheel out tired old > >> truisms in their defence. I do uphold your right to be horribly misled, > >> however. ;-) > > > >the basic, underlying flaw with capitalism and the "free" market is that > >it cannot sustain itself - we will start to see this more and more as > >governments privatise more and more social services and utilities ... > >after all, there is only so much you can charge for, say, the price of a > >phone call ... and once you've hit the ceiling of how much you can > >charge, then there's only so far you can cut back your services .... > >actually, someone should tell this to tesltra ... The free market hardly has problems sustaining itself. Individuals may have problems sustaining themselves in the free market. > >i love it when these lists get woefully off-topic :) The concept applies pretty directly to linux and open source. -- www.RTaylor-Design.Com
