14 Dec
2004
14 Dec
'04
3:53 a.m.
On Sunday 12 December 2004 03:16 pm, Dave Phillips wrote:
Greetings:
I'd like to put this thread in a coffin and drive in the last nail:
And I missed it...
...Drag.
USians opining about socialism is as ludicrous as
USians opining
about democracy.
Now, if you wanna know about corporate plutocracies, *that* we can
discuss better than anyone else on this planet.
"You are a slave, Neo."
Best,
dp
Shayne O'Connor wrote:
>> That's not to say we should be
>>naive about market forces, but there's no need to wheel out tired old
>> truisms in their defence. I do uphold your right to be horribly misled,
>> however. ;-)
>
>the basic, underlying flaw with capitalism and the "free" market is that
>it cannot sustain itself - we will start to see this more and more as
>governments privatise more and more social services and utilities ...
>after all, there is only so much you can charge for, say, the price of a
>phone call ... and once you've hit the ceiling of how much you can
>charge, then there's only so far you can cut back your services ....
>actually, someone should tell this to tesltra ...
The free market hardly has problems sustaining itself. Individuals may have
problems sustaining themselves in the free market.
>i love it when these lists get woefully off-topic
:)
The concept applies pretty directly to linux and open source.
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