Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site uwvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!uwvax!myers From: myers@uwvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: State run enterprises Message-ID: <932@uwvax.ARPA> Date: Sat, 18-Jun-83 21:58:39 EDT Article-I.D.: uwvax.932 Posted: Sat Jun 18 21:58:39 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jun-83 18:02:45 EDT References: tekmdp.2029 <254@mit-eddi.UUCP> Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 22 I thought MIT had rather enlightened people (e.g. Joseph Weizenbaum)... Zig tells us that "Deregulation, and non-intervention, will hit the huge, environmentally damaging enterprises hardest." Even if this were true (an assumption which belies corporate history), such an enterprise would only be "hit" after causing n-million dollars in damage (if one has a penchant for measuring only exchange value). The next thing we'll hear is the old song-and-dance about how any corporation truly worth its salt won't let things like this happen as it leads to expensive lawsuits, bad pr, etc. Who's paying for the huge majority of the cost of chemical waste cleanup? The companies who produced it? No, they covered their asses long ago. State non-intervention is tantamount to having a 12 month open season declared on the environment; of course, the current administration's policy is creating a de facto state of non-intervention. I'm casting my vote in '84 for Teddy (Roosevelt, that is). Jeff Myers ...seismo!uwvax!myers