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Re: Just Teasing, I Have No Intention of Debating Any of This...
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Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:15:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:

> >  The market is plenty free--we have 200+ nations to choose from!  The fact
> > that no nation has arisen to suit the desires of every last person is
> > irrelevant.  That's the market in action.
> 
> There are sufficiently high barriers to entry (the 200+ nations collude
> together to prevent new entrants) that your assertion that "the market is
> free" is false, Dave!

  How so?  Do you mean we're not free to form a new nation, or that we're
not free to move from one to the next?
  In some cases, the latter is certainly true, but that's just the market in
action; different types of product are available, with different
requirements and benefits.  I want to buy a car in a fictitious free market,
but I only want to spend $1000.  Does the fact that I can't buy a
top-of-the-line luxury car for that amount mean that the market is not free?

     Dave!



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  Re: Just Teasing, I Have No Intention of Debating Any of This...
 
Preface: Plowed ground alert. I probably shouldn't have posted a flurry of responses, just summarised and let it go. This has been discussed before at length. That said, onward. (...) Not in and of itself. But if you had a grand scheme for a $1000 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) There are sufficiently high barriers to entry (the 200+ nations collude together to prevent new entrants) that your assertion that "the market is free" is false, Dave! (24 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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