In a message dated 3/4/98 10:51:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
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<< In response to an intelligent, and, actually, very RELEVANT point about the
 nature of "capitalism", i.e. a completely artificial construct which exists
 only due to government enforcers (protectionists) ...... we get this ------>

 << Yea, Yea, Yea, so the essence of capitalism is quite different from
 currently
  used textbook definitions. Anything new under the sun lately? >>

 this list has been has been a such a huge disappointment, a total waste of
 time. >>

Not getting the point, capitalism is much more than government intervention,
it has become ingrown into the very nature of all human relationships.  That
is why I commented that textbook definitions were wholly inadequate to capture
the essence of capitalism.  It seems that you feel exactly the way capitalism
expects you to feel, defeated.  See ya'.............