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To: TimF who wrote (5485)	2/11/2001 3:13:40 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Also do you think it has actually been tried and shown to be a horrible disaster or do you think that it would be a horrible disaster so it is a good thing that it hasn't been tried? Ayn Rand said 30 some years ago that capitalism hadn't be tried yet so how do we know it doesn't work. She'd probably think it still hadn't been tried. Karen P.S. Don't forget to watch The Practice tonite.

To: TimF who wrote (5485)	2/12/2001 1:35:17 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Back up 150 years in this country or 200-250 years in England. Seven-year-old children working because it is perfectly legal. Safety? What's that? And we don't worry about suits because we don't pay you enough to afford a lawyer. These weren't pure capitalism, but they're close enough. Without some regulation and control, capitalism puts essentially all power into the hands of a few who own the economy. Pure capitalism has never been tried, but in that way it is like pure communism- -it isn't stable in the real world. It's purity is quickly sullied by a public demand to control it. (Pure communism has a different problem. People simply do not behave the way it demands.