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To: Michael who wrote (37965)	8/12/1999 9:48:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

My dear pal Michael, it sure is a nice day! The monopoly law [without reading it] is absurd! All 'events' are instantaneous 'monopolies' in an infinite array of causal relationships. All sales are instantaneous monopolies in an infinite array of transactional possibilities. Some transactions are desperately needed such as a cancer cure. If a company has the only cancer cure available for a particular person, that is quite some monopoly. But not really any more of a monopoly than the newspaper seller on the corner - just on a different scale. It's just that the consciousness of the buyer is hugely affected by one and less by the other. I wonder if a cancer cure provider would be allowed to sell for what the market would bear to maximize their profit. Or would their property be stolen from them, for the greater good, like a common communist collective? Interesting isn't it? Will Q! be allowed to make hundreds of $$billions or will they be told that it isn't good for the world to pay so much money? Mqurice