From: E. Shaun Russell (e_shaun@uniserve.com)
Date: Mon Sep 04 2000 - 19:49:42 MDT
Paul Hughes wrote:
>I challenge anyone on this list to demonstrate how
>free-markets can exist without a feudalist tyranny
>resulting. Demonstrate how such a system will not favor
>the rich over poor when it comes to basic civil rights and
>justice.
Well, you're using one right now. The internet is almost fully ungoverned,
is accessable by all but the most poverty-stricken (this is changing, I
might add, see:
http://www.transhuman.memetree.com/article.pl?sid=00/07/24/0034244)
Civil rights are fully uninfringed upon, and justice is untouched.
Multiple businesses can make multiple billions from using this free market,
yet very few (if any) civil rights will get quashed. This is the most
poignant example among others, in my opinion.
>Who is there to protect the little guy? If you don't
>give a damn about the little guy, then I rest my case.
Paul, before I address these sentences, I would like you to tell me who the
"little guy" is. What demographic do you have in mind? I am not saying
this in jest, it is just that I hear this term used repeatedly, yet have
never heard an objective meaning applied to it.
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