Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:47:30 -0400 From: Chris Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Microsoft bashers Message-ID: <0108270947300X.03063@mercedes.local.domain> In-Reply-To: <005b01c12ebd$05b18060$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> References: <005b01c12ebd$05b18060$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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On Monday 27 August 2001 01:56, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > This danger is known and has been known for a long time. It is why > antitrust laws were written. Any economic prof will tell you that in a > purely capitalistic system, that ultimately all global markets will > collapse into monopolies. A system of monopolies is the normal end result > state of a pure free market. > > The only answer to fix this is, of course, government. Only governments > can enforce laws and contracts. The problem is that ever since the Reagan > years we have had a string of conservatives (in the US at least) that have > been telling us that government is evil and must be reduced. Now an entire > generation has been raised on this fodder and believes it utterly. > Meanwhile all this anti-government claptrap has not succeed in reducing > government one bit - instead it has merely weakened it to the point that > enormous numbers of special interest groups are now > manipulating it and we end up with a system that's even worse than the > supposedly > bad government that it was meant to replace. > > I don't often post here, either. Thank you, Ted. I thought I was the only one. I couldn't have said it better. Especially the bit about the generation raised on voodoo economics. Thanks again. -- ---------------------------- Chris Browning brownicm@prokyon.com ---------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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