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To: GraceZ who wrote (20504)	1/5/2005 2:50:58 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116555

Imagine if typewriter manufacturers had been able to lobby the government to limit the number of computers and subsidize their "way of life" in order to stay in business. I agree, and there is a good UK example close to your analogy. The printers strike with "News International” over "new technology" in 1986. news.bbc.co.uk But a free market is a free market, and we do not have one of those anywhere. The likes of Rupert Murdoch and those in political power see to that. My point is that many nations suffer from the USA's subsidized agricultural policy that puts them out of the market. The "free market" is usually only talked about when yet some other scheme is used for extracting wealth from a developing nation. Europe is just as guilty of the same nonesense, except their more socialized variety of capitalism means they maybe are not quite so effective at the practice.