Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site oliven.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!sun!idi!oliven!danw From: danw@oliven.UUCP (danw) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: markets too big for freedom? Message-ID: <721@oliven.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Nov-84 13:51:12 EST Article-I.D.: oliven.721 Posted: Fri Nov 16 13:51:12 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Nov-84 05:38:47 EST Organization: National Cobalt Testing Range Lines: 22 [] > That doesn't necessarily mean that a completely free market > will work very well. Look at what happened in the late 19th and > early 20th centuries, when markets simply became too big for > complete freedom to be a viable policy. There were massive > depressions and crashes, because of the lack of control of the > economy by the government. (I shouldn't talk about economics > though, because I really don't understand it...) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- markets became too big for freedom? not even one :-) This is the equivalent of saying that the DNA/RNA replacation mechanism is so complex that life without centralized authority is impossible. Oh my, what am i saying? There are people that believe that one too! It is a sad but true fact that some people want and need big brother. danw