Ed Carp wrote:

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Unrestrained economic powers (companies, corporations, whatever) have the same property. This seemed to me to be a fundamental point that Rishab was making -- and one that is often ignored in discussions of economic libertarianism.

Agreed, but I don't see that that was the point Rishab was making. Oh, well..

It was, actually. "Corporations can be at least as bad as governments" - the examples of extreme circumstances were extraneous. BTW the original analysis of the PFF thing by Richard Moore was posted here on the 25th by him, though he seems to think that I got it from elsewhere and volunteered to post it... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- For Electric Dreams subscriptions and back issues, send a mail to rishab@arbornet.org with 'get help' as the message Subject. Rishab Aiyer Ghosh rishab@dxm.ernet.in rishab@arbornet.org Vox +91 11 6853410 Voxmail 3760335 H 34C Saket, New Delhi 110017, INDIA