On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 07:26:51PM -0500, Signal 11 wrote: > > Surely capitalism is much closer to anarchy than socialism since it > > requires much less government intervention (in fact, I believe that > > government intervention damages capitalism)? > Heh. Look at the most successful "capitalist" society on the planet - > the US. Doesn't seem to damage us very much...
You think so? What about the monopolies permitted by copyright (music industry and Microsoft)? What about drugs companies exploiting illness and mysery to squeeze as much money out of people as possible in payment for drugs that the patent system prevents anyone else from manufacturing? What about the US trying to force Europeans to consume genetically modified food that they almost universally don't want to eat (through the World Trade Organisation). Open your eyes man! Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20000818/dfb1eb5e/attachment.pgp>
