-- On 25 Oct 2001, at 0:00, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
A bare one objection to comprehensive market based security: a market needs private property, and other civil rights, in order to function efficiently, as predicted. Protection is what guarantees those rights. If you place protection on the market, you no longer have a guarantee that the market itself can function as originally intended.
And if we place food on the market, we no longer have a guarantee that anyone will be able to eat :-) Observer that in the real world, food and clothing is provided by the market, and no one goes hungry or naked, but school and protection is provided by the government, which theoretically spends the same money protecting and educating the poor as the rich, and many people are not educated or protected. In America today many do not get an education. In North Korea today many do not get to eat. That is because in America, the state guarantees education, in North Korea, it guarantees food. If the state guaranteed sand for all in the sahara, there would soon be sand shortage. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 4fljdbeLLWox+IazJXkc65l3GbGVxFV5SIJVIO5l 4L7J488MYZF8SAQaJj89qjSWZfvLtOyMr+SHwugf4