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cube
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| You can bet there will be some type of government mandated rationing of some sort when PO hits. Everybody likes to advocate the "free market" system. However that's only true when there's an ample supply and lots of competition to keep prices low. Once things get crazy and the price goes skyhigh all of a sudden people give up on capitalism and advocate Communistic approaches like "price controls" which ultimately leads to rationing. |
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threadbear
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Cube, You say "people" will give up on capitalism. I'm sure they will, but corporations won't give up on them, nor will they turn their backs on a system that has done so much for them. The general consensus may not amount to much in the future. Your post indicates you think you're living in a capitalist democracy that will become a social democracy, when things get rough. Wrong on both counts. |
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jaws
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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| threadbear wrote: | | Cube, You say "people" will give up on capitalism. I'm sure they will, but corporations won't give up on them, nor will they turn their backs on a system that has done so much for them. |
Corporations are made up of people as well. It remains to be seen what side they will fall on. |
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threadbear
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| There are the corporate worker bees and then the reptilian overlords, not truly people in the traditional sense, more like a bestiary of convenience. |
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