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To: TigerPaw who wrote (365714)	1/7/2008 2:16:35 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574332

Perhaps you make sense to yourself, but not to me. You've provided zero support for the claim that certain points in the production process earn sustained undeserved profits, and you haven't provided any logical reason against my claim that when these points appear temporarily capitalism removes them via competition. Unregulated farmers certainly don't earn unreasonable profits.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (365714)	1/21/2008 6:52:03 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1574332

A better example is the person who decides which car to make. If he decides it's an SUV then it doesn't matter if many more far sighted employees know that a fuel efficient car would help them and the country. The decision has been made, enforced, and off the assembly line comes another 8 ton gas guzzler. The car company can make the "8 ton gas guzzler", (8 tons? Is it amored or something?), but if the customers don't want it, than it loses profit and market share to the companies that make what the consumers want. The decision is made by the car company only in the short run. In the end the decision is made by consumers.