[Pirsig] The Metaphysics of Quality provides the vocabulary. A free market is a Dynamic institution. What people buy and what people sell, in other words what people value, can never be contained by any intellectual formula. What makes the marketplace work is Dynamic Quality. The market is always changing and the direction of that change can never be predetermined. The Metaphysics of Quality says the free market makes everybody richer-by preventing static economic patterns from setting in and stagnating economic growth. That is the reason the major capitalist economies of the world have done so much better since World War II than the major socialist economies." (Lila, 17)
Platt, no one here ( I think) disagrees with the above notion, and while some of us try to exercise our choice, we end up swept by the avalanche of those who don't care. While I am at the supermarket, I try to exercise my freedom of choice, others will try the same as they see the virtue of the new product. Then one day we show up a that supermarket, and the product is no longer there. Later we find out that the supermarket actually 'sells' its shelf space. So while the new cereal is good for me at a very fair price, the manufacturer finds himself out of that grocery store because either Kellogs or general mills 'bought' all the shelf space for their product. When I ask my grocer ( if there is a local guy to talk to) I am either told that Headquarters somewhere makes that decision, and his hands are tied, or find out that the grocery chain is pretty much being paid not to carry my product of choice. Of course the laws are written in such a way, that no wrongdoing can be found in a court of law, and that the market is tilted in favor of the one or two huge monopolies that already exist. No one here is saying that a free market is not the best solution that we know of so far, all we are asking for is a LEVELED playing filed. Khaled ____________________________________________________________ Stock Options Click to learn about options trading and get the latest information. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=_JelmYyCy66noMESYbslaQAAJ1BoN5MIA846iJgpKACKCvEMAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQlgAAAAA= 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/
