On 18 November 2013 22:41, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:02 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is quite simple. Markets ignore the commons, hence a free market > > solution can't - or is highly unlikely - to work. > > Yes, but this is circular. You're saying that the market cannot work > for things that you do not allow to be part of the market. The > government has to exist, otherwise how is the government to exist? > It isn't a question of not allowing the commons to be part of the market. YOU try convincing a private organisation to put lots of resources into fixing the commons. Try and persuade, say, Dell or Oracle or McDonalds that they should spend a substantial part of their revenue building motorways or fixing the climate, and see how far you get. -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
