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To: lurqer who wrote (17775)	10/24/2002 10:00:19 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 104191

<<...Note that each component of a balanced system tends to mitigate the excesses of the other component...>> el lurqer: that's a very good point...=) -S2

To: lurqer who wrote (17775)	10/24/2002 1:20:15 PM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104191

eLQD- i think i've opened up a whole box of pandoras with that question (what is the perfect alternative?)... as i think about it... we HAVE modified simple capitalism. there are 100s of rules and laws governing the economic conduct of business. the graduated tax rate is one of the biggest factors, but there are anti-trust laws designed to protect us from monopoly-gone-to-its-ultimate-end, and scores of other regulatory controls that i am ignorant of. i'm getting a headache just trying to think about it. for anyone, even a competent CFO of a fortune 500 corporation, to have a clear view of the entire complex system seems next to impossible - especially since it is constantly changing. we have an ultra-complex economic system in the united states... we've taken a system designed on an incomplete or partial concept of natural law and found that it doesn't support the collective need, so we've tried to tweak it with 100s of exceptions and regulations. there has to be a better way to combine the proper mix of capitalism and socialism... something naturally self governing, something simple that doesn't take a genius to understand. i think it has to be based upon a common vision or worldview... an understanding of nature and the interdependency of the whole that includes, validates and supports the independence of the individual. que, no? the natural world is perfectly self-governing. ultimately, it already controls our economic system by the simple fact that if it doesn't work, it FAILS and motivates a tweaking or change of some kind, usually in the form of legislation or imposed morality. but i STILL think there has to be a better way, a simpler way, for mankind to function economically and otherwise - based upon natural law. to this end, i think it behooves us to examine, experience, and understand the natural order and process of the universe. einstein was a hero, and so was thoreau. but an einstein or thoreau i ain't... i'm kinda thinking my path of nature study must be to get on a sailboat for a few years and look for that "ah ha! - eureka" moment when the simplicity of it all hits me over the head. when it does, i'll share it with the nnbm barmates first. WAIT! hold everything! i think something's coming to me... THE NEW NETWORKED BUSINESS MODEL!! that's the key! the system that emulates the process and the natural order of the universe. it's the perfect union of the individual and the collective needs. i think i'm going to go back to the 1990's and re-read kevin kelley's NEW RULES for a NEW ECONOMY. -u. reeka