At 10:56 PM -0500 11/12/96, Jim Wise wrote:
On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
My piece was written as a rant about the dangers of the proposed talk of "privatizing food distribution points," about how this would result in a system where only the rich could get access to nutritional food, and how the poor would be made to suffer. And how this "caloric anarchy" would result in vicious monopolies, price wars, and deviation from Recommended Governmental Caloric Intake Rules.
Which it does... FWIW, I tend to agree with your general point, but I moved from downtown Manhattan to Harlem recently, and was surprised to see how many foodstuffs cost _more_ up here, as well as the obvious fact that many are harder to get... Junk food and cheap liquor are everywhere, though...
But you're conflating a separate issue: the cost of doing business in high-crime ghettoes. Both rich and poor alike find prices high and selection poor in high-crime ghettoes. Likewise, both rich and poor alike find prices low and selection good in low-crime, suburban locales. --Tim May "The government announcement is disastrous," said Jim Bidzos,.."We warned IBM that the National Security Agency would try to twist their technology." [NYT, 1996-10-02] We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."