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- Subject: Re: Defense Contractors (was Re: Somalia)
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 21:57:22 GMT
- Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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- References: <1992Dec17.042610.28892@news.columbia.edu> <BzFnKx.DvF@ns1.nodak.edu> <18DEC199203573221@utarlg.uta.edu>
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- In article <18DEC199203573221@utarlg.uta.edu> b645zaw@utarlg.uta.edu (General Boycott) writes:
- >In article <BzFnKx.DvF@ns1.nodak.edu>,
- >green@plains.NoDak.edu (Brad Green) writes...
- >
- >>Clinton whines about IBM losing 25,000 jobs, but even CNN and other news
- >>groups admit that IBM hasn't kept up with the competition. What's he want
- >>us to do, subsidize an unprofitable business? It's a shame to lose the jobs,
- >>but that's the way it works, you don't stay competitive, you lose. I wonder
- >>if that's why Scully is hanging on to Slick's coattails.
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- Could just be that Scully realizes that conservative laissez-faire economics
- based on "the invisible hand" is a fool's dream on the scale of the theory
- "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". Each
- assumes that the beneficient nature of man will "automatically" balance the
- functioning of the system. Which in both cases is obviously not true.
-
- >Dunno, but I used to be intrigued with the Newton and PDA's.
- >I'll be takin' my business elsewhere than apple or even taligent now
- >as long as scully is around.
- >
- >-= the hazards of mixing business and politics =-
-
- For example, laissez-faire economics assumes the existence of a perfect
- free market and perfect knowledge of each product, with the consumer's
- buying decisions based on the merits and pricing of each product. But
- General Boycott, apparently an advocate of free-market economics, has
- speared his own theory by distorting market dynamics because of his
- disagreement with Sculley's political bent (which is actually conservative
- at its root!).
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- Conservatives can be such dingbats.
-
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