Me cynical? Why James, I'm a Shirley Temple idealist. I'm highly offended. Sometimes I sort of long for the Roman Catholicism of my youth, though. Remember the one about the camel and the eye of a needle? Funny how the "Christian Nation" crowd never cares to bring that one up.
I have read the Sherman Act, FTC Act, Clayton Act, and Robinson-Patman Act. All written in brain-cracking, obfuscatory legalese (sp?). Reduced to plain, simple English, they basically state that anyone in business is a potential criminal, with success and dominant market share being the criteria that triggers punitive sanctions. Reduced even further, one could argue that they make the capitalist economic system, per se, illegal.
I think your brain cracks too easily. The Sherman Act, at least, is pretty short and straightforward. Enforcing it has proved problematic, of course. Anyway, hypothetically speaking, if the alternative to cynicism is adoration of a certain purveyor of crappy software, just because "Bill Gates is John Galt", I guess I'll have to live with it. The guy sure looks like a false prophet to me, and #1 or #2 had something to say about that, I forget which one.
Cheers, Dan. |
