Charles HOPE wrote: > rob wrote: >> it was mentioned that "free lunches are a great thing, but i've not yet >> found >> one": but possibly u did. >> >> distorting history to argue a point-of-view is akin to a "free lunch"... at >> the very least, it's relying on others ignorance to press home an advantage. >> >> David may or may not have been "over the top" but not by the argument that >> Capitalism has been around for "20,000 odd years".... try 200 years... a >> Capitalist paradigm is an informative way to view the world. but it is not >> the >> only one, nor the one held by a majority of people. >> >> for the record: America (which i'm guessing is where the majority of people >> on >> this mailing list are from) is NOT a Capitalist society... it was /almost/ >> one >> in the 19th century (if that helps)... today the U.S.A is a mixed-ecomomy >> with placed freedoms and controls. > > In Rachel's defense, Capitalism is the system based on voluntary business > transactions and private ownership. Those two elements have existed forever, > but > only recently have they grown to dominant proportions yet, unfortunately, > never > in the complete absence of other paradigms which are all based on different > types of thievery and brutality.
Can someone just make a videoblog post about Capitalism so we all know what you are talking about? Pete -- http://tinkernet.org/ videoblog for the future... Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/