From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Sep 29 11:21: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85FDB37B410 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 11:21:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.140.105.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.140.105]) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f8TIKba11032; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 11:20:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BB61126.3321A396@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 11:21:26 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: David Schwartz , paul@freebsd-services.com, FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: helping victims of terror References: <20010927205547.B69066@lpt.ens.fr> <20010927192517.AAA2063@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> <20010927213312.C69066@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB43B65.C3ED251F@mindspring.com> <20010928142314.B7471@lpt.ens.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Terry Lambert said on Sep 28, 2001 at 01:57:09: > > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > Capitalism is also a religion to many people in the US, because they > > > aren't willing to admit that there may be deficiencies in the > > > capitalist world view, that free markets don't cure all ills. It is > > > correct, everything else is wrong, infidel, dangerous. In the 1950s > > > many of America's best and brightest people were persecuted by this > > > capitalist (anti-communist) dogma. > > > > Standard Oil. IBM. Microsoft. Antitrust. Enough said. > > No, say some more. > > Antitrust is a capitalist idea. It is also a good idea, I happen to > think, though the Republicans disagree. It doesn't follow that all > capitalist ideas are good ideas, if that's what you're implying -- > if not, I don't understand what you're implying at all. I'm pointing out that your statement "free markets don't cure all ills" is not applicable to the U.S., since its markets are not free markets, they are controlled. In other words, Capitalism != Free Markets. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message