Christoph Reuss replied to this: >> People who dislike the market lay every problem on it. It seems >> that every nasty thing that happens across the world is labeled >> free trade. It's rather like Orwell's "1984" (peace is war).
as follows: > People who dislike government lay every problem on it, and even > write as if all forms of government would be bad just because some are. > Bureaucracy IS lame, but you can have that in (big) corporations too. > Decentralization and efficiency IS good, but you can have that in > government too. Good reply, yes. In fact, government is the only thing that can stand between the individual and the corporation and as the power of private capital increases one would hope that the ability of government to protect and to regulate to increase correspondingly. By the way ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword > "igve". Sounds effective, but maybe too effective. How does it work? How do you sub to a list like FW? If you build "igve" into your address it defeats the purpose. OTOH, if you don't, how can you get FW mail? What if a correspondent forgets to put "igve" into his/her message and then assumes that you don't wish to reply (when, in fact, you never got his/her message)? curioser and curioser, Stephen Straker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vancouver, B.C. _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework