[snipped from offlist email] .......... I've browsed through the Bunzl piece. This passage caught my eye: ***** In my product portfolio, however, I can also offer a paper that can reduce these harmful emissions to a fraction of what is normally given off. But because of the special resins it contains, this paper costs about 20% more than conventional paper and my customers will not use it because the higher cost will make them uncompetitive in a global market where their customers, the major car manufacturers, can purchase anywhere in the world and can play one supplier off against another.****** It reminded me of those factory owners (quoted in *Capital*) who testified to Parliament begging for laws on child labor, because they had to do it if others did. It's radical individualism generated by market relations that creates the illusion that humans are "naturally" competitive -- when it's fairly obvious from what little I know of australpithecous and homo history that the main biological advantage of those genera was that they were increasingly "naturally" cooperative, spontaneously thinking of themselves as manifestations (not their word of course) of the group, not as isolated abstract individuals. Carrol _______________________________________________ Crashlist resources: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/crashlist
