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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (131465)2/5/2001 12:36:48 AM
From: Dave B  Read Replies (1) of 1571399
 
Left unchecked, the marketplace is notoriously poor at protecting the environment and quality of life.

Is the Government any better? Let's take a poll of the residents around Chernobyl (a government run facility). Or maybe we should check with all the residents around the "government"-run toxic waste dump sites.

The reality is that people are people. There are people in marketplace who care, and there are those who don't, just as there are people in the government who care while others don't. "Government" isn't anything but "people". Some of them are smart, some are stupid, some are corrupt, some are unethical, some are good and some are bad. The average DMV worker isn't any more noble than the average manufacturing line worker. There's no difference between the "government" and the "marketplace", except for the fact that it's harder to fire the losers in the government.
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