> > > >On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 3:43 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> they seem to mostly have a religious belief in free market capitalism, >> despite there never having been such a thing >> > >Actually there has been, the black-market. > > >Really I am laughing out loud -- for real. John I would love to see you try to >get into the hard drug distribution black market -- and find out (hopefully >not getting killed in the process) just how un-free the global black market >is. It is a global oligopoly dominated by a few trans-national drug gangs and >if you think that this is an exemplar of free market -- I have to really >question what your idea of freedom is.
>>But that's the point - this is exactly where unfettered free markets lead, >>it's called monopoly capitalism and it's the natural end result if FMC (play >>"Monopoly" and you'll get the general idea). Which is precisely why markets need to be regulated by society; and I do agree markets left to themselves degenerate into monopolies. Markets are NOT self-regulating as these Ayn Rand Libertarian infested folks very loudly like to believe. Chris -- 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.
