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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.193954.27752@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <1992Dec29.005625.2589@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:39:54 GMT
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- helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- : In article <1992Dec22.180708.1169@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>, dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- : |> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- : |> [....]
- : |> : We need fear Microsoft becomming a monopoly no more than we needed to
- : |> : fear Standard Oil. History clearly shows that the free market was
- : |> : working to reduce Standard Oil's market share. And if we don't use the
- : |> : FTC as a club to beat Microsoft into the ground, history will again show
- : |> : that the free market in computer software will work fine too.
- : |>
- : |> Ah the great god of the free market. Tell me, does the free market
- : |> help to provide medical care for the entire population of the US?
- :
- : This is getting off of the subject, but with the Federal Goverment paying
- : for over 60% of the health care, we don't have a free market in
- : medical care now.
-
- I don't think that's what I said. The fact is that your free market
- system fails to provide some 25% of your population with any medical
- care whatsoever.
- :
- : |> Does
- : |> the free market - so vigorously espoused by the IMF and the World Bank
- : |> - help to keep third world countries out of debt and to feed their
- : |> populations? I read this morning that the police in the Ukraine cannot
- : |> even drive to most crime scenes because under the fabulous free market
- : |> system they don't have the gas to do so.
- :
- : I'm afraid that the Ukraine doesn't have a free market in policemen
- either. :-)
-
- Again you evade the point. Many third world countries are crippled by
- staggering debts, and they cannot feed their populations because the
- IMF and World Bank insist on their economies confoirming the the
- great god of the free market.
-
- :
- : |> The free market system is another attempt by mankind to regulate
- : |> affairs. It is not cast in stone, it is not holy write - and it
- : |> doesn't work.
- :
- : It doesn't provide Utopia, but that's not one of the options. Are you saying
- : that the Ukraine goverment, which can't even run a police department, should
- : run their economy too? :-)
-
- I'm saying that the Thatcher-Reagan era has hijacked the political and
- economic arena and elevated the 'free market' to the status of an
- axiomatically 'good' thing. My question is what is all this created
- wealth *for* if you cant' feed your people or provide them with health care?
-
- --
- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
- Email: (dbarker@spang.camosun.bc.ca)
- Phone: +1 604 370 4452
-