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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Hunger and the Free Market: re to Cramer
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 14:23:23 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 14:23:23 1985
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In article <375@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
> > [tim sevener whuxl!orb]
> > The basic point of this example is simply to point out that *there is
> > no guarantee* that people will *not* starve in a free market.  In order
> > for a "free market" to prevent starvation then there must some reasonable
> > distribution of wealth in that free market.  Otherwise many people have
> > no access to any means with which to participate in the market (namely
> > the means of production)
>  
> Free markets have reasonable distribution....

I've dissected out this exchange to ask (undistracted by side questions):

What makes you think "free markets" would have "reasonable distribution"
of the sort that would prevent starvation?
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh