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Cosmo Kramer
Junior Chimp
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« on: March 04, 2006, 10:31:20 PM » |
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If you remove government power there is still not a free market....power has simply been moved to the control of the corporate leaders. And now economic wealth will be distributed down through heredity and the benevolency between various aristocrats, causing meritocracy to fall and overall economic progress to halt.
There is no choice of promoting economic freedom. The lassez-faire dogma of equity of opportunity and maximization of prosperity in such a system is false. There is only economic control by the owning class or economic control by the will of the majority. In fact, there is a good argument that government is really only an extention of a natural economic system. The government could be said to represent the collective market power of the people that is too small to ever be manifested individually.
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