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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Labor Market (re: Discrimination)
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Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 20:46:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 10 20:46:00 1985
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>/* mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) / 11:23 pm  Jul  8, 1985 */

>Theoretical reasoning can wait; supply and demand (in the Smithian fashion)
>can only be assumed to work in a system of near perfect competition.

Supply and demand determine price to the degree that an economy is free.
Thus, they may have a substantial effect even in a system that does not have
near perfect competition.

>>False analogy!!!! The correct analogy would be to say that the existence of
>>the NAACP and the SCLC is sufficient demonstration of racial bigotry.

Your analogy addresses a different point than mine.

>(I
>had really hoped that you had learned something about argument after all
>this.)

Would you like me to apologize? :-)

>>They do not have the money to resist the illegal
>>actions of their employers, nor do they have the choice of picking up and
>>moving away.

>Mike, I want to know what KIND of laws you are going to enact to
>fix this problem, and how they are going to be enforced.

Laws against the initiation of force or fraud.  In this case, enforcement
might go something like this:  If a worker thinks that his/her employer
has violated his/her contract of employment, he/she can go to the
government and complain.  After an investigation (and perhaps courtroom
procedures, etc.), the loser must pay the cost of the investigation,
etc.

>If you are going
>to have any sort of nebulous law, than I think it's readily demonstratable
>that the current system is superior; it';s flexible, and your's isn't.

How would you go about demonstrating this?
What do you mean by "flexible?"  Do you mean it is vulnerable to political
tampering?

>Charley Wingate  umcp-cs!mangoe

						Mike Sykora


P.S.  --  My account is being terminated, so I won't be arguing anymore.
Goodbye, I've enjoyed arguing with you all.