On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
But the market, unlike those wise benevolent folk who consider themselves morally superior to the market, DOES provide sufficient nutrition for all the participants, whereas whenever the wise and good have set themselves in charge of providing nutrition for all, or X for all, they have usually failed no matter what the value of X.
Which is pretty much the reason you will want to limit what those benevolent people can do. Keep them to their role as a police, and the rest of the market will work well enough to supply the force. Or more likely, only channel the money through those benevolent people, and buy the actual service from the private sector. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:decoy@iki.fi, tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2