Adam Smith believed that a free market was impossible without government intervention to prevent monopolies.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bill Johnson [00000047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 11:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: I want to cry Social democratic countries have much better quality of lives than America. Very few would like pure capitalism. No social security, medicare, military, police/fire, public schools, etc. Most people would be making very little to benefit the wealthy. Unions fought for the benefits we all now take for granted. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, February 3, 2023, 11:21 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The > inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. Under capitalism > man exploits his fellow man. Under socialism it's the other way around. > CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity. -------- Original message --------From: Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> Date: 2/3/23 5:10 PM (GMT-08:00) To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: I want to cry I don't run in those circles enough. I write in VBA and VBS a lot, but I don't work in a shop where it's common. But I was a COBOL developer for 15 years and I knew coworkers who know COBOL and nothing else.---Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313/* The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -Churchill */-----Original Message-----From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of John McKownSent: Friday, February 3, 2023 17:13Or Visual Basic.--- On Fri, Feb 3, 2023, 12:10 Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote:> It is a little distressing, though (at least to me), to observe how > many "programmers" never ~have~ seen anything but COBOL.>> -----Original Message-----> From: zMan> Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 10:50>> And unless COBOL is the only programming language you've ever seen, it > seems unlikely that you wouldn't know what a variable is.----------------------------------------------------------------------For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
