On 10/25/2017 5:37 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
I am not entirely sure of this. I think that in the long term, the
free-market can work, both for preserving resource and happiness.
We might have a different feelings due to the fact that it does not
seem to have work with us, but the reason is that we don't have a
free-market, given that we have the prohibition laws. Even at the
start, Henri Ford, who made his 300 first Ford car in Hemp, and using
Hemp, defended the Hemp for building car by saying that it is a
renewable resource, and that it would not perturb the current
concentration of 0_2, C0_2. If the Market would have been free, most
people would have used Hemp (which was the petrol before petrol)
instead of petrol.
Nonsense. Hemp was grown for rope. It was never a fuel. Henry Ford
built a car whose body panels were made from plant cellulose, mostly
from soybeans but including 10% hemp. But it was never shown to be
economically viable or durable enough to replace steel. Notice that when
GM built plastic bodied cars, the Corvette, Saturn, Fiero...they did not
make the plastic from soybeans or hemp and the cars have not aged well.
The plastic hardens and cracks.
To sell something as toxic and disgusting as petrol, you *need* to
abolish the free market, which is what happened. After that you do
lose happiness, and you do destroy basically everything quickly,
hopefully in a reversible way.
Free-market is like evolution. It does not see anything in the long
term, but can still lead to building things which can see in a longer
and longer terms.
Bruno
I'm afraid you've become a crank on this point...as though marijuana the
basis and measure of world capitalism.
Brent
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