> > > >On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 3:43 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> they seem to mostly have a religious belief in free market capitalism, >> despite there never having been such a thing >> > >Actually there has been, the black-market. > > >Really I am laughing out loud -- for real. John I would love to see you try to >get into the hard drug distribution black market -- and find out (hopefully >not getting killed in the process) just how un-free the global black market >is. It is a global oligopoly dominated by a few trans-national drug gangs and >if you think that this is an exemplar of free market -- I have to really >question what your idea of freedom is.
>>But that's the point - this is exactly where unfettered free markets lead, >>it's called monopoly capitalism and it's the natural end result if FMC (play >>"Monopoly" and you'll get the general idea). Which is precisely why markets need to be regulated by society; and I do agree markets left to themselves degenerate into monopolies. Markets are NOT self-regulating as these Ayn Rand Libertarian infested folks very loudly like to believe. Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
