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From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Who Controls the Network?
Message-ID: <2610@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 3 Jan 89 21:23:38 GMT
References: <1084.23BB8DEB@isishq.FIDONET.ORG>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls
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In article <1084.23BB8DEB@isishq.FIDONET.ORG>, Doug Thompson writes:
> 
> McDonalds has to server the WORST, crappiest, most 
> tastless piecce of dead cow-flesh ever to have the name "hamburger" 
> bestowed upon it. All they have going for them is standardization and 
> high potency advertising. 

   This may be true, but irrelevant.  The arguement I was making
   was that, altho they are the #1 burger chain, they can't
   abuse that position via high prices or arrogant service, 
   because they haven't gotten Der Staat to outlaw their
   competition.

> But I'm half way against you, 
> I don't think warring feudal lords present a more attractive 
> alternative. 
> 

  Stop and think.  If the fat cats thought a free market would let
  them run wild, they'd *support* a free market.  Since it would
  actually rein them in, they don't.  That's why their campaign
  contributions go to Democans and Republicrats, not Libertarians.
  That's why they support greater and greater growth for the
  "public sector".  In 1981, there was a proposal to limit property
  taxes here in Houston,  and the Chamber of Commerce went into
  hysterics in their panic to defeat the measure.  When there's
  a proposal to deregulate an industry, it's the bigger practitioners
  of that industry to fight hardest *against* deregulation.
 
Wait - coffee break's over.  'Til next time, laissez faire,
laissez passer.



Jeff Daiell
(opinions my own, until taxed away)


INDEPENDENCE FOR TEXAS!


-- 
  If a hungry man has water, and a thirsty man has bread,
  Then if they trade, be not dismayed, they both come out ahead.

                                   -- Don Paarlberg