From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 27 6:41:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from chmls06.mediaone.net (chmls06.mediaone.net [24.147.1.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 794CE37B401 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 06:41:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brownicm@prokyon.com) Received: from mercedes.local.domain (h000103d2e005.ne.mediaone.net [66.31.215.73]) by chmls06.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f7RDfEm28493; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:41:15 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Chris Browning To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" , Subject: Re: Microsoft bashers Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:47:30 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <005b01c12ebd$05b18060$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <005b01c12ebd$05b18060$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0108270947300X.03063@mercedes.local.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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