From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2009-04-18T05:15:01+09:00
Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Goodbye Ruby - Hello Earth

> .but lets suppose we start all over again, lets suppose we have all the
> people with the same resources and the same opportunities, then we apply
> "free market" what happens ?
> people get together and start their small companies, some do better than
> others, the ones that did better buy another company, and then
> another....and ooooppss, what we have: monopolistic control over
> resources ? corrupt corporate lobbyists ? nahhhhhh the forces of "free
> market" suddenly appear and destroy the bad guys and wipe corruption
> from the face of the earth.

A "free market" is a math curiosity that works in the presense of a 
perfectly level playing field, incorruptable rule of law, pure democracy, 
and business standards all perfectly tuned to foster competion. My HMO will 
never sentence me to death because I can easily switch HMOs and force them 
to compete. By magic.

In the real world, there is no law that can withstand the corruption of 
power, hence we need to over-regulate the rich, and sometime vote against 
them. The "peasant uprising" can either be built into the system, or it can 
be bloody.

The countries in the world that got this balance right - specifically the 
Pacific Rim countries whose silicon I am now typing on - they all have in 
common just a little governmental extra control over their financial 
systems.

Go figure...