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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: average joe who wrote (81179)6/25/2009 3:12:59 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
LOL! You ever throw stuff away?!

Well, we like to sell product when the market demand will give us a good price for the product. We like to buy product when the market demand will provide us a good product for the price. This is normal self interest.

So in terms of the buying and selling of product there are two choices: 1). As just stated or 2). the exact reverse.

So John Galt would have taken the choice that matched self interest (normally #1), or he MIGHT have stayed OUT of the market if he thought it was being artificially manipulated by unscrupulous characters. Would he have tried to buy high and sell low and lose money?? Well...Francisco definitely would and did! (but those were extraordinary times! :-)

But most of us don't have the energy, time, or ability to sanitize a world of muggers and looters with their guns, their uniforms, their Governor mansions , their police or guard badges, or their religious frocks--so if we catch an idiot betting queens against our aces we gladly cut his hand off at the wrist...
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