From: one-if-by-land@concord.com   
      
   "EDS"  wrote in message   
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   >> I don't think that it   
   >>> by definition means "everyone does whatever the hell they want" because,   
   >>> if that were so, then a company could redeuce the amount of ASA in it's   
   >>> headache pills by adding drywall compound.  And really, people are *not*   
   >>> all inherently ethical, so something like that *would* happen.  THat's   
   >>> not a free market.   
   >>   
   >> Everybody *geting to do what they want* is far better than *some* getting   
   >> to do what they want.   
   >> If you hear that a very nice restaurant had 100 incidents of food poison   
   >> in the past year will you patronize them?   
   >> If you hear 100 people got sick in your city last year from drywall dust   
   >> in ASA will you purchase it?   
   >>   
   >> The very premise of the *free* market is what makes it so successful.   
   >> That ALL people, merchants and patrons, are *free* to make choices in the   
   >> things they purchase and sell and the services they hire and provide.   
   >> No one is *forced* to deal with any of it.   
   >> Faulty services and products will be rooted out and abolished by the very   
   >> people that purchase them.   
   >> Shoddy service and product cannot be prevented, no more so than any other   
   >> human ethic-moral infraction, like crime for example, but you can   
   >> eliminate them and enact restitution to the harmed as they occur.   
   >> The placing of tariffs skews the market and in many case harms the very   
   >> people they are meant to help.   
   >> Same with taxes, especially sales tax, that is a flat fee across the   
   >> board which is a higher ratio for the people with less income.   
   >>   
   > Hey Don, who enacts the restitution? The government that is not there? The   
   > police we don't need? The courts that take too long?   
   > EDS   
      
   It starts with YOU, Ed.   
   You have to let go of old worn out excuses that don't work.   
   Only then will you see new solutions to recurring problems.   
   You gotta walk before you run.   
      
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