Joe had written:
> >Since business acts to maximize its profits, eventual total merger
> >(and total "market" - read consumer, people or citizenry - control)
> >would be a lead-pipe certainty.
To which I responded:
> This is a total _non sequitur_. How does profit maximization lead
> inexorably to "total merger"? In a free market, the consumer is always in
> control - where else does the profit come from?
Joe's comeback:
>If there's only one source to get what you must have, and one price
>for it (as in monopoly), profit is maximized right along with control.
>Citizens become businees slaves and corporate serfs. Joe
<Sigh> This is going nowhere.
Dick