At 11:52 AM 7/18/01 +0200 Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM wrote:
>Do you have any idea why we'd rather let the government decide on that? It's
>because the government (ideally) goes for the option that benefits society
>most, while the market will go for the option that results in the highest
>profits.
And guess where those profits come from? From benefiting society.
Slavery is illegal. Thus, a corporation can't generate profit without
giving something to the general public for a price that is cheaper than the
general public thinks that it is worth. (After all, nobody in the general
public buys something for more than it is worth to them.)
Meanwhile, that "ideally", should be in big letters. This, is, after all
the same government that spends millions upon millions of dollars to make
basic foodstuffs more expensive for poor people. They're really acting in
the general interest there, eh?
JDG
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