- Capitalism and Alternatives -

For-profit Debating Rooms? Of course not.

In Reply to: For-profit Debating Rooms? posted by Samuel Day Fassbinder on December 09, 1997 at 12:12:12:

: : Capitalism may have it's flaws, but creating innovation is not one of them. The alphabet, for example has spent thousands of years languishing under non-Capitalist systems. Books were availible only to the princes and kings and they wern't very good books at that.

: : The last fifty years of capitalism have brought us word-processing, HTML, Java, paperback books (cheap enough for the masses), spell-checkers, laser printers, even World Wide Web Discussion Boards for Socialists(!)

: : All of the above were created for profit.

: Please do tell us how McSpotlight is profiting off of this Debating Room.

Of course, McSpotlight doesn't profit, the little (!) meant I was joking!

However, the technology that enables this board to exist *was* created for profit.

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