Real capitalism falling down drunk

[David Honig]

At 05:35 AM 12/7/01 +1100, mattd wrote:
>Dave Honig wrote...Joe the nailmaker invests in a machine to make nails
faster
>than he can by hand. Who has he coerced?
>
>Who cares? its low level market and
> >trade


Well, I care about coercion; and you state that 'capitalism is coercion'.



>The implicit coercion is the protection racket of the state lurking in the 
>background and attempting to monopolies money.

Joe bought his machine in a mutually consenting transaction, no State
involvement.