John wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Doug Pensinger<[email protected]> wrote: > > > A free market economy has its limits? The goals of a free market economy > > aren't necessarily aligned with the best interests of the species? > > Huh? Best interest of the species? How many starving or sick people > could have been helped with the money it took to send a few people to > the moon? > > Do you think some people have more right to decide what is "the best > interests of the species" than others?
Absolutely not, but isn't that how the free market works; the people with money/power decide what's in the best interest of the people they control? Then we have the ringing success of the U.S. health care system to tell us how well the free market works for sick people. Doug
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