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To: Ilaine who wrote (90339)	4/5/2003 5:42:30 PM
From: paul_philp	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Unbridled capitalism as a force of nature red in tooth and claw. Even in your scenario, the earlier industrial age was a huge improvement over the pre-industrial age and those that could choose, chose the industrial lifestyle. A refresher course on the late middle ages is needed. Did y'all have Robber Barons in Canada? We did. J.P. Morgan's father got his fortune started during the Civil War, buying defective rifles cheap and selling them back as new. The real Robber Barron's are creatures of bubbles and we just had a whole new set of them in the the late '90's. I think that bubbles are a healthy and necessary feature of capitalism, for more good gets done than harm and the Robber Barron's take advantage of people's greed not their productivity. Capitalism is a function of nature not man, nature is cruely indifferent to individuals or species. Paul

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