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Quoth Jaeger T. Cat <jaeger@pluto.njcc.com> in misc.consumers:
>In article <3AC04004.869443B7@ix.netcom.com>,  <poboxdc@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>You misspelled a word, there... "free market" is not spelled
>  g r e e d

Oh really? Have you learned nothing from school? The free market is 
_precisely_ about greed. Sometimes we dress it up by calling it self 
interest, but it's the same thing.

Communism started as being not_ about greed, and it didn't work 
because it didn't take human nature into account. Human beings are 
selfish. It doesn't matter whether that's a good thing or a bad 
thing, it's a true thing. Any economic system has to take that into 
account.

(In /The Dilbert Principle/, I believe, Scott Adams says that the 
three strongest forces in the universe are stupidity, selfishness, 
and horniness. Certainly they're the three strongest on Usenet. 
Spammers combine two of them at a time: "Earn $6000 for $6" and 
"live nude girls!". A really clever spam would combine all three: 
"Mail a nude girl to each person on this list, add your name, and 
you'll get 1000 nude girls in 30 days! This really works, and it's 
legal!" followed by some mendacious pseudo-cite to some US Code 
section.)

-- 
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA
                                          http://oakroadsystems.com
My reply address is correct as is. The courtesy of providing a correct
reply address is more important to me than time spent deleting spam.