Jay Hanson wrote:
>
> From: Ed Weick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >of their overlords. In comparison with the economic institutions of former
> >times, I would take the market any day.
>
> There you have all the choices in the universe folks: either modern market
> slavery or even worse slavery. <G> If that ain't science, I don't know what
> is.
>
> Jay
Slavery by identifiable persons, or slavery by "no one" ("The
invisible hand" which supposedly gives even the CEOs of gigabillion
dollar global corporations no choice -- but Marx already talked about
this
in Das Kapital, where he observed that the only way the work day
was shortened in 19th Century England had to be thru *legislation*,
because the market would drive out of business any entrepreneur who
tried to improve his workers' conditions unilaterally).
I think I have previously suggested that Stalin and other
dictators were not very clever, since people who felt
wronged by their policies could at least name their
oppressor. The "tyranny by no one" reminds me of
when Odysseus was attacked by the Cyclops, and, after
poking out the Cyclops's one eye, the Cyclops exclaimed:
"Who did this to me?" Odysseus replied: "Noone did it!"
When the Cyclops's fellows heard him crying out in pain,
they asked him: "Who hurt you?" The Cyclops replied:
"Noone hurt me." So nobody came to his aid, since
he had quite clearly told them there was no problem....
\brad mccormick
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