Re: Modern Marvels

Wilson wrote:
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> "Edward Dolan" <edolan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Wilson wrote:
>> [...]
>>>>>>>> I know. I know.  Businesspersons contribute more to the overall 
>>>>>>>> benefit of society by providing goods and services that people 
>>>>>>>> want and need at prices they can afford.  Like say food, 
>>>>>>>> shelter, medical services, and re***bent bikes (on topic ****tion 
>>>>>>>> of this post).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> These thing could be provided without vast cor****ations that do 
>>>>>>> nothing by buy and sell other cor****ation, investment banks, etc. 
>>>>>>> 90% of the structure does not benefit society as a whole, but 
>>>>>>> just a small fragment. This is not the free market at work, but 
>>>>>>> the opposite.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I wasn't aware that 90% of the USA market structure was vast 
>>>>>> cor****ations buying and selling pieces of cor****ate paper to each 
>>>>>> other.  Where do they get the money that they use in these 
>>>>>> transactions?
>>>>>
>>>>> The money is skimmed off of the backs of labor that actually 
>>>>> creates the added value in goods and services.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, but none of this sounds plausible to me.
>>>
>>> So the people making hundreds of millions or billions in financial 
>>> markets and services are really personally providing a similar 
>>> benefit to society? Hardly sounds plausible to me.
>>
>> Wilson is batting 100 and Mr. Sherman is batting 0 as usual. The old 
>> Soviet Union was anti-capitalist and it failed utterly. Apparently 
>> "people making hundreds of millions or billions in financial markets 
>> and services" are doing something beneficial for society. But Mr. 
>> Sherman would prefer that government bureaucrats make these kind of 
>> decisions. He should have lived in the old Soviet Union where he could 
>> have enjoyed the "benefits" of that kind of society.
>>
> 
> In that kind of society one of the "benefits" not to be enjoyed by Mr. 
> Sherman would be a garage full of re***bent bicycles and tricycles.  In 
> that kind of society it's entirely possible that he would have been 
> executed as an "enemy of the people" for such excesses.  Hell, in that 
> kind of society he probably wouldn't be able to enjoy the benefit having

> a garage at all. But hey, in that kind society he would have found a 
> worker's paradise, so all's well that ends well for Mr. Sherman.
> 
> Re****t to the dog food bag production line at 6:00 am Comrade Sherman.
> 
Will you all be so smug when the inevitable collapse occurs? Cancer 
cells are the most successful one in a body for a time, until death 
occurs from their excessive growth. The current western system depends 
on constant growth, which is not possible in a world with finite
resources.

-- 
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful