Thanks for your cautionary "shape of things to come".
Of course, your reference comes> from Lawrence Kudlow was chief economist at the Office of Management & Budget during President Ronald Reagan's first term. >
As we approach year the 2000 accelerating industry consolidation, fueled by Wall Street imperatives,evolves into a corporate Giantism (described alternately as efficiency, synergy ).This process will put small businesses, the entrepeneur hero, increasingly at risk.
Your intellectual defense of business Darwinism excludes the consequences toward small business, privacy, individual rights, to name but a few concerns.
I do not think Libertarianism, as defended by you, is progress at all.
Rather, it is a step back into the dimly lit cave of primitive capitalism.
You would probably think private corporations should operate prisons, too. Unless, of course, you had the misfortune of being sentenced into one. |