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Re: Just Teasing, I Have No Intention of Debating Any of This...
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Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:42:15 GMT
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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.
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> 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?
Not in and of itself. But if you had a grand scheme for a $1000 car that you
wanted to try out but the other car companies used armed force to stop you,
that would mean it wasn't.
High barriers to entry (that are put in place by force or collusion, not
just because, for example, it costs money to build car plants) mean markets
aren't free. What are the barriers to entry to forming a new society, here
and now?
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