On 13 Dec 2009 at 10:08, khaledsa wrote: > Andre Platt > > One can walk into a Las Vegas casino look around and think ' wow what a > dynamic free market this place is' > > On the surface, it's got the hustle and bustle of markets going back > hundreds of years. Any one is free to come and go as they please, and > with any free market, some win and some loose. > > Well do they? > > We all know that the odds are in favor of the house, otherwise they could > not stay in business and employ all these people and make payroll. > > Some may object to it as being immoral, on religious grounds or > otherwise. > > But the bigger question is, what GOOD is this place bringing to help us > advance the social over the biological cause.
Seems to me a place people can go to have fun and relax so long as it doesn't hurt others enhances the social order. > Unfortunately, today's Free market is no different than walking into a > casino. It's really not free, and the odds are stacked in favor of the > house. If you mean by "stacked in favor of the house" that businesses must make a profit to survive (and support governments via taxes) then I don't see the problem. Your assumption is that when someone exchanges his wages for a box of cereal,a bottle of milk or a stack of chips at the blackjack table that somehow he is getting ripped off. So long as his choice is free I don't see the problem. If you know of a better method of producing and exchanging goods and services, I'm sure we'd all like to here it. Platt 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/
