Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!clarke 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 Article-I.D.: utcsri.1226 Posted: Thu Jul 4 11:31:59 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 11:43:49 EDT References: <1121@ubc-cs.UUCP> <1110@mnetor.UUCP> Reply-To: clarke@utcsri.UUCP (Jim Clarke) Distribution: can Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 27 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.