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To: LindyBill who wrote (362435)	5/3/2010 7:39:49 AM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 793843

Every business has to consider cost. * * *

To: LindyBill who wrote (362435)	5/3/2010 4:29:47 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 793843

Lindy, all transactions are monopolies, depending on how tightly the definition of "monopoly" is made. <Hardest economic sale in the world is convincing someone that natural monopolies are moral. > Normally, the definition of "the market" is made tightly enough to catch the intended victim who invariably has a big pile of loot for the raiders to make the attack worthwhile. So the only shop in a small town is not considered a monopoly even though they are the only one in town and invariably charge higher prices than the closest Wal-Mart in the nearest city. The anti-trust people aren't interested in protecting people from high prices at the local vegetable shop. They are after big game with lots of loot, like Microsoft or Qualcomm. Google has a lot of loot and Apple does now too. They obviously have monopolies and sure enough, they do. The only monopolies which matter are government monopolies. At least with democratic systems, even those have a mechanism for canceling the kleptocratic suffocatocracy. The current global experiment is to see whether widely democratic countries can actually pull themselves out of their death spirals before total collapse. They nearly all seem to be voting themselves into collapse. The form of collapse will be interesting. Will they maintain civil order and private property protection [about all they might have going for them] or will the last barriers to anarchy, poverty and carnage be abandoned too? I have always thought I have lived the most amazingly good times in history, and in the best countries [even in these amazing decades, there has been carnage in places and plenty of poverty]. It could all turn to custard if the overpinnings of the success of billions of people are not maintained and are instead abandoned in the pursuit of hopeless ideology which democracies seem hell-bent on pursuing. If Athens, the initiator of democracy and once a place of a shining city on the hill, [the remnants still there as a warning to us all], continues as they are, and the rest of us copy them, we might find we are living the worst of times in all of human history, with more total human carnage, famine and catastrophe than in all of history before the 21st century, combined.... Mqurice