From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2009-04-19T17:29:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Goodbye Ruby - Hello Earth

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On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 05:15:01AM +0900, Phlip wrote:
> > .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.
>=20
> A "free market" is a math curiosity that works in the presense of a=20
> perfectly level playing field, incorruptable rule of law, pure democracy,=
=20
> and business standards all perfectly tuned to foster competion. My HMO wi=
ll=20
> never sentence me to death because I can easily switch HMOs and force the=
m=20
> to compete. By magic.

An HMO wouldn't exist in a free market, because "free market" implies the
necessary absence of governmental intervention causing the existence of a
corporation to be possible.  Corporations are, by definition, legal
"persons" -- something that sure as shit doesn't exist without someone
with a bunch of guns going around making sure everybody plays along.
That doesn't sound very "free" to me.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Mike Maples, as quoted by James Gleick:  "My job is to get a fair share
of the software applications market, and to me that's 100 percent."

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