From: khaled Alkotob (khaledsa@juno.com)
Date: Sun Oct 02 2005 - 05:28:17 BST
Well a free market is the only way to do business with that comes a few
conditions.
1. No government subsidies, else it's not a free market.
2. Minimum government interference. For example i should be able to get
my drugs from Canada if I find them cheaper there and not be stopped by a
law that was pushed thorough by the lobbyist of the drug companies.
3. Fairness, I know that some people are going to call it socialism or
communism. Here is the question. if I make a product, and I have been
doing well. A new competitor shows up, under a free market competition is
good, it make the product better and gives the consumer more choices and
better prices. If i have deeper pockets and can afford to sell the
product at a cheaper price for a while until they competition goes
bankrupt, should I do that?
should the government interfere and accuse me of dumping the goods in
order to put him out of business? And what if I drive him out of business
and then drive me out of business ( Drugs, Gambling, fire, ....) suddenly
that product is no longer available, should the people blame the
government for not protecting the other guy?
On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 00:18:11 +0200 (CEST) Mladen Duvnjak
<mal5050@gabbaspacedust22.fsnet.co.uk> writes:
>
>
> I think both books are brilliant but I have one query
> Lila states that capitalism makes everyone richer because it is a
> dynamic system
> but there is a problem how much richer does everyone need to be
> capitalism is based on the ever increasing consumption of the Earth
> which is a finite set of resources which is illogical. Basically the
> whole economy is based on oil even though we could run cars of
> vegetable oil which is renewable but obviously George Bush and
> Haliburton wouldn't;t make any money out of it. And no matter what
> Platt says there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, The
> hurricanes have proved the whole of civilization is based on oil and
> ever more powerful hurricanes may be caused by global warming of the
> oceans. So without fusion ore a safe way to use hydrogen for
> combustion ( as electrolysis is energy demanding) WE#RE FUCKED. MOQ
> is great but how do we move from an oil based combustion economy to
> a sustain able clean technology economy.
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