From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Sep 29 15:38:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from postfix2-2.free.fr (postfix2-2.free.fr [213.228.0.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A74137B409 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 15:38:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bluerondo.a.la.turk (nas-cbv-2-29-157.dial.proxad.net [213.228.29.157]) by postfix2-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFC405F7A4 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 00:38:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 522 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Sep 2001 22:36:47 -0000 Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 00:36:47 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Terry Lambert Cc: David Schwartz , paul@freebsd-services.com, FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: helping victims of terror Message-ID: <20010930003647.A501@lpt.ens.fr> 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> <3BB61126.3321A396@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BB61126.3321A396@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 11:21:26AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE i386 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 Terry Lambert said on Sep 29, 2001 at 11:21:26: > > > 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. Hang on. Antitrust == Free Markets. It's in a way the whole point; no socialist or communist country has such a concept. The point is that you cannot have competition with a monopoly or cartels controlling supply, and the point of free markets is to have competition. I absolutely don't follow your arguments at all; I suspect you don't yourself. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message