From: utzoo!decvax!cca!ima!johnl
Newsgroups: net.politics
Title: Re: hey - (nf)
Article-I.D.: ima.292
Posted: Sat Feb 19 03:23:06 1983
Received: Sun Feb 20 09:40:54 1983

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ima!johnl    Feb 18 11:12:00 1983

It always seemed to me that the crucial flaw in socialism was to assume
that a large government-run bureaucracy was preferable in some important
way to a large private bureaucracy.  Compare, for example, the phone
company and the post office.  At least with private bureaucrats, you can
usually take your business elsewhere.

The other flaw is to assume that you can run an enterprise for socially
desirable goals without reference to the fundamental financial soundness
of the activity, which is why nifty little alternative magazines usually
go bust after a year or so.

Time to put on my asbestos terminal cozy, I suspect.

John Levine, decvax!yale-co!jrl, ucbvax!cbosgd!ima!johnl, research!ima!johnl