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Date: | Tue, 2 May 2000 06:22:11 -0400 |
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Don't have a "bible" - you might want to read a little history, however.
Generally, history shows that monopolies install and maintain governments,
not the other way around.
DDeBar
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> From: Mumpsimus <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] Microsoft a monopoly?
> Date: Monday, May 01, 2000 8:42 PM
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> Bill Bartlett wrote:
> The writer points out that capitalism, which is predicated on and
> justified by free competition, inevitably trends toward increased
> monopoly, simply by the development of increasingly sophisticated
> machinery of production.
> Mumpsimus prior
> This is nonsense.
> There are two types of monopoly; coercive and natural. Natural is
> a desired variety as the best product is produced at the best
> price -- such has never existed. A coercive monopoly requires the
> Government to enforce.
> DDeBar wrote:
> There is clearly a trend towards monopoly, that is, one producer of
the
> total supply of a given product. It is, from a production point of
view,
> more efficient. Also, it is easier to regulate supply and to
mitigate
> against crisis of overproduction. The government need only do
> nothing, and monopolies spring up all over the place.
>
> Name one monopoly that did not require Government enforcement.
> Your bible is flawed.
>
>
> Mumpsimus
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