Re: Hellgate impressions

"i own a yacht" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Gerry Quinn <gerryq@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Whether his 'masters' arer going to make an 'incredible profit' is also
questionable. They also operate in a free market where there is price
competition, so you can live in a society where goods are so cheap and
of such high quality that you feel disposed to argue that nobody needs
to earn more than a few times the minimum wage.

actually, i argued against that. i'm pro bowie's millions.

I think that was Gerry having a little dig at me. He prefers the current
situation, where he and I earn hundreds or thousands times as much as
workers in developing nations, and Bowie & co. get hundreds or thousands of
times as much again. I would prefer a situation in which there was less
distance between the bottom and the top. I cannot tell if my view would be
different if I earned hundreds of times more or less than I do now, or if
goods were more expensive.

but yes, i suppose i'm not a wholesale fan of the "free market," then,
if it allows the exploitation and subjugation of others simply because
you offer them a dollar and, having no other options, they take it.

Exactly.

the "free market" is not a mandate by god. it is an economic system
developed by man, and it's indifferent to the ethical problems that
arise when you have developed and undeveloped nations interacting with
one another. i am not indifferent, however.

Me neither. The free market is not an invention of man though, it is a
mechanism which was waiting to be discovered and put to use. I would go so
far as to say that it *is* a mandate by God - but God expected us to care
for one another, rather than to expect the market to do that for us. The
iniquities of the free market are merely reflections of human greed and
selfishness, nothing more.

CC


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