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Article #38443Re: The Blameless Society -> Tobacco / Drugs
From: Ivan Satori
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 11:54
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 11:54
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Scott Willing <NOTwilling2BSPAMMED@mts.net> wrote in message news:x1rs6.5789$tn1.71724@news1.mts.net... > > > . . . > > Capitalists don't make laws. Governments do. The bigger the government, > the > > easier to get with things away. > > Actually we agree on the problem, but perhaps disagree on the mechanism. > > I don't have a problem with the *ideal* of good, clean capitalist > competition, but by hook or by crook, it seems it never stays clean. As soon > as the opportunity presents itself, competition is disadvantaged or > eliminated by some manipulation or other, whether institutionalized by the > government, or just corporate dirty tricks. > > The "better product at a better price" idea of free competition is a quaint > falsehood. In reality today? Absolutely. How did it come about? From people who wanted to "improve" on the system. Or more precisely, people who wanted to make career in politics, and found out that this is an argument that the public would buy. The government protecting the little guy from the big bad capitalists. The little guys have more votes, the big capitalists have more money. So the politicians have to appease both if they want to succeed. Not a very good basis for finding reasonable, effective and efficient solutions.
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