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Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:03:33 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Edward Sanburn writes:
> James,
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> > Why is it that "government will take advantage of whatever power we give to
> > them" is a valid view, when at the same time, 'corporations will take
> > advantage of whatever power we give to them' is not?
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> Can you please give me examples on how corporations can take away your
> freedom, your liberty, your rights, etc.? The government can and does.
Corporations can take away anything we allow them to take away, in the same
way that government can take away anything we allow them to.
Examples? I don't see why they're necessary since we're so far into the realm
of theoretical, but ok. Coal mines and (some) coal mining companies in the
pre-regulation/pre-union days. Miners were often paid in scrip instead of
cash, being told that cash wasn't available (for whatever reason - sometimes
it was even true). Their scrip was good at the company store, but goods at
the company store were so expensive that they ended up needing to spend more
than they earned, locking them into a downward cycle of debt. Miners who
didn't have an external source of income had no actual money, and company
scrip wasn't good anywhere else.
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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| James, (...) Can you please give me examples on how corporations can take away your freedom, your liberty, your rights, etc.? The government can and does. Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems Administrator/CAD (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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