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Re: It's All About Control (was: Re: Possession)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:13:03 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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Here is a great example of some profound fundamental differences between the
Right and Left....Let the free market work out that stuff. Now, if you are
afraid of unscrupulous entreprenuers screwing the little guy, than I’ll
gladly agree and take the discussion to the topic of morality and ethics
which is really the crux of the issue.
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The free market only works between natural persons, once you allow fictitious
persons (i.e. deathless corporations) into the marketplace you have killed
freedom of trade and replaced it with the heavy gravity of monopolistic
leviathans with which almost no one can compete. Natural persons and laws begin
to orbit the various corporations because money attracts money, everyone wants
in on the action. Look around you, the death of Mom and Pop stores and the rise
of the likes of Walmart is proof of my statement. This is a problem the right
has never addressed except to lamely suggest that what is good for the many
corporations is also good for you (which I am positive is false!).
I’m not worried about morality and ethics, just basic fairness. You’ve set up a
straw man and ignored the real issue, John -- as usual. There is more to
economics and politics than is dreamt of in your philosophy.
BTW, my conception of the Great Archive is a cooperative venture that may or may
not have to do with govt. involvement -- really I imagined it would take a
supra-national form in any case. The concept was one of the commons, which does
not belong to any govt. -- it belongs to everyone together.
-- Hop-Frog
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| (...) Disagree. They compete with each other (Although I do recognize that there are some industries that need to be regulated for the common good). (...) You are being nostalgic. Mom and Pop were inefficient. Walmart brought more variety, more (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Here is a great example of some profound fundamental differences between the Right and Left. Anytime you talk of "implementing" something, what you really mean is for the government to take it over and control it. That in my mind is not the (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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