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To: Lane3 who wrote (7859)	12/21/2005 7:59:28 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542054

That was a very nice article. Thanks. But defining good greed vs. bad greed provides no mechanism for achieving one over the other. The history of human affairs is that left to their own devising, many people turn to bad greed. Wailing about it does not help. Regulations can. If by some magic we could make everyone good, we would not need laws. Thats a tautology. It is why Libertarianism, IMO, is as badly flawed as Communism. Both would work flawlessly if people were only flawless. Both fail because people are not. The article also highlights another failing of ideological Libertarians IMO. Note the praise of corporations, and the bashing of governments. Yet our government is democratic, while corporate leadership is much less so. Corruption can exist in either place, but I would suspect more where there is less accountability.