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Although these "conversations" with Harry are like hitting one's head on a
"stoned wall" (stoned - because whatever Harry is taking appears to have reduced
his cognitive abilities to below the threshold of tolerance), they do allow for
a great many important points to be brought up in rebuttal. So, thank you
Harry.
Just a couple of (my own) clarifying points below:
----- Original Message -----
From: Christoph Reuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 5:46 PM
Subject: [Futurework] Re: the best service at the cheapest price (was
Re:Italy and the Euro) | Harry Pollard wrote:
| > The free market (when it exists) tosses out the companies which fail to | > supply the best service at the cheapest price. | | In practice, the market rather only looks at the cheapest price and | tosses out the companies which supply a better service (for a | corresponding price). | | That's why the market ends up with cheapo crap. Even if I want to buy | good products for a good price, I can't, because the companies went broke, | driven out of business by the cheapo crap - "that most people buy". "that most people assume they can afford"; perhaps in
order to maintain their position in the race of "status-quo" so often worked
over by Keith. It would also appear to be the "advertising" (or corporate
flim-flam) that drives this "distraction toward mediocrity".
| | What remains is companies like the one that caused the second Alpine | road tunnel between France and Italy to shut down for months (see article | below), just because - "the company thought it was clever to save a few bucks | on keeping their trucks in shape and on the salaries of their drivers". This IS the "free-market" approach that Harry so often spouses.
| The same happened in 1999 with the other F-I tunnel (Montblanc). Just | in order to haul such essential stuff as tires from Belgium to Italy ! | (Comparative advantage?? They make tires everywhere...) | | ---- | | -Ed Weick wrote to Harry: | -"> But God bless you for reminding us of the economics of the 19th Century. | | -Harry is clearly more modern than Keith who keeps reminding us of the | -economics of the stone age. Consequently the problem of "economics" which is too often based upon the
past and not upon "future" concerns.
Personally, I find Ed's reply : ...
>My
own view of free markets is that, like the Garden of Eden, they are a
beautiful idea. They may have >existed long ago when, as Keith
maintains, people traded red ochre over long distances, but I doubt that
>they were all that free even then. The following article reminds us
once again that there are huge multi->polar interests involved in markets as
they now exist. It also reminds us that, the more complex and
>costly the product, the more likely these interests are to rise to the
surface (or to just under the surface) >and attempt to steer
markets in directions to their advantage.
>Power and Interest News Report (PINR)
>http://www.pinr.com >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ >07 June 2005 >To see all of our recent Intelligence Briefs, visit the following URL: >http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_region�ion_id=23 - to be more sane in reasoning then Harry's continued regurgitation of
the "truths" that the U.S. promulgates to the world.
Darryl
| | Chris | | | | http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050605/wl_afp/franceitalyslovenia_050605193440 | | | Alpine tunnel closed for months after deadly inferno | |
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