On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:48 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Guns and other deadly weapons are made in communist, socialist, fascist and > other > economic systems besides capitalist. So that's not the issue. The issue is > who can > legally use them to coerce people to do things. You and I and businesses we > work > for can't. Governments can. But Platt, what difference does it make when huge corporations lobby, bribe and pressure their governments to do their coercing for them? > > > What is often called "slave labor" is also called cheap labor compared to > the cost > of union labor. What is often called "exploitation" is also called a better > living by > those affected. What are often called "sweetheart deals" are also called > corrupt > politics. As for the "statist propaganda machine" being capitalist, I > simply > refer you to how the major media slant the news in favor of Statists. > There is a very cozy relationship between gargantuan state and gargantuan capitalism. Ike's famous prayer, God help this country from falling into the hands of the military-industrial complex, illustrates that this is an actual danger. Power corrupts, whether the power is in the hands of the state or corporations. The wonderful thing about a free market is > that buyer and seller, with competing and sometimes hostile egos, both get > what they want peacefully. > I agree. I just think there is a better way to do this than our current system. And I'd like to chime in with Paco from an earlier contribution to this thread: >From Paco: IMO, Capitalism as a social system with its corresponding selfish ideology should be exposed for what it is from the point of view of Quality. (snip) So Pirsigians, unite! Down with the pretense. I believe people have a sense Quality to come up with viable alternatives to capitalism. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
