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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.062029.16330@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 06:20:29 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.054247.23899@leland.Stanford.EDU>, yiupun@leland.Stanford.EDU (Yiupun Michael Kwong) writes:
- |> In article <1992Dec29.192253.13045@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- |> >
- |> >Does it though? Why arn't there any more DRAM manufacturers in the US?
- |> >Why can't you buy a "Made in America" camera any more? Why does Sony and not
- |> >GE make the best CD players? Our manufacturing base, strangled by
- |> >regulations _including_ the antitrust laws, just can't compete with the giant
- |> >vertically integrated companies of Japan and Korea. The antitrust laws prevent
- |> >the pooling of resources which are necessary to create the next generation of
- |> >consumer electronics.
- |> >
- |> >And unless we arn't vigilant now, our software companies are going to go the
- |> >same route as our manufacturing base.
- |>
- |> Japan is no less regulated than the US. Better regulated maybe.
- |> Look at MITI. It actively engages in setting an industrial policy, and it
- |> orchestrated Japan's entrance into consumer elctronics. Look what it has
- |> done.
-
- Agreed, Japan's government and business are in bed together in a way which
- makes us look positivly laissez-faire. What Japan _doesn't_ do is bash companies
- over the head if they get "too big" or "too successful." Instead of punishing
- success, they reward it.
-
- |> I don't necessarily believe in government intervention. Too much of it
- |> definitely will choke development. However, to say that all govt.
- |> interventions is necessary bad is as much a dogma as to say a big brother
- |> type government should be implemented. And just as unfounded.
-
- Agreed, I'm not saying that _all_ government intervention is necessarily bad,
- just _this_ particular kind of government intervention is bad.
-