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From: clarke@utcsri.UUCP (Jim Clarke)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Nationalization/Crown Corps.
Message-ID: <1226@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 11:31:59 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  4 11:31:59 1985
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Summary: 

In article <1141@mnetor.UUCP> fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams) writes:
>In article <729@utcs.UUCP> clarke@utcs.UUCP (Jim Clarke) writes:
>>Umm, well maybe that's something wrong with free enterprise.  It seems to
>>produce profits nicely, but it doesn't care much about anything else.
>>
>	It doesn't *have* to care because "supply & demand" is a natural
>law. Everything else falls into place.
>  ....
Surely you don't believe that supply and demand is going to take care of
your aged mother, or keep the rivers and the air clean -- unless there's
some nasty socialist interference?

>....  As far as the loss of jobs, this will no
>doubt take place in the short term. 
>...  A free economy takes care of itself naturally, and
>it is hard to improve on mother nature.
>
>...    Survival of the fittest is another natural law and it applies
>to business without loss of validity.

This outlook is was seen as simplistic in the nineteenth century.  "Survival
of the fittest" is a phrase Darwin and his pals considered muddle-headed
when applied to biology.  Apply it to society and economics and you get
"social darwinism" (poor Darwin), one of the underpinnings of our recent
history of racism and fascism.

There have to be better arguments against crown corporations.