On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Marcel Popescu wrote:
In my opinion, everything should be left to the market to solve, and nothing to politicians. I'd agree with you about the courts if they were private.
If people played 'fair' and actualy stayed within the very limiting confines of theoretical free markets this would work (probably). Unfortunately people don't work that way so it won't work that way. By the time the market can collect the information the abusers are hidding it's too late for the market to correct. In human socieities there must be some form of 3rd party arbitration/regulation. Now the question as to whether this is best served by a central power structure or a more distibuted one (e.g. polyocracy) is an open question. I would say historical evidence shows the distributed model is better because it works on a more local and familiar level. ____________________________________________________________________ He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------