From: joshb@xs4all.nl   
      
   There are many and long public meetings about the budget of my city   
   of Groningen¹, who has a budget of about one billion a year. If you   
   accept a private business to wield that much money at their whim, in   
   my opinion you would have lost sight of what a market economy is. You   
   would also have lost sight of what a democracy under law is, for that   
   matter. The market will be in an unstable and worrying state because   
   such centralization suffocates competition and represents an unhealthy   
   wealth disparity, the public sector would become a Plutocracy, because   
   that kind of money is real power.   
      
   A trade is about a certain balance, and a market economy is also about a   
   dynamic balance. This is what a lot of people seem to not understand. They   
   interpret a market as a race, and a trade as an opportunity to screw   
   someone as badly as possible. When they interpret a market economy that   
   way, as a dog eat dog system, they need to understand that the fight   
   at some point will be over, and / or it will be taken to the next level   
   (tyranny and war).   
      
   ¹ About 200 000 people live in Groningen (NL).   
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