At 11:05 PM 10/7/98 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
Those were monopolistic markets? If not, you're forgetting the whole basis of the discussion.
At the time. Absolutely.
Jim Choate then proceeds for several hundred lines without producing a single line of evidence that these markets were monopolistic, indeed without ever giving the slightest hint as to what markets he is referring to, or naming the evil folk who supposedly monopolized them, or even telling us what era he is talking about. If real monopolies had ever existed at any time or any place except by state intervention, Jim would be able to provide some concrete examples. He has not provided any examples. Indeed he deliberately avoids the concrete, because he knows that if he named a particular identifiable alleged monopolist, such as the famous Standard Oil, he would be instantly shot down with concrete statistics about market share, price cuts, and profit margins. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG +c3wkO3RFcnyQ+20qReU9IMbbdJlIOQ9LFuSlL 4mYWu2FKGcax0m1hHP/qRobKOhQM6JFfGrDiwZK2m ----------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald