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To: miraje who wrote (16180)	1/16/1998 6:10:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Sure, JB, I believe you've expressed your support for MO here and/or elsewhere. And I can't argue against that, with the fine holdings MO has in my home state. But, since the old Nike days, I haven't said much about politics in a long time. What I say is our system of government deserves respect. Yes, it has problems, but I see no way that a world run by Bill and other Galt reifications would be a better world. Maybe it would be, if you can get enough people to believe that, as I've said, the process is as open to you as anyone. One dollar, one vote is close enough to the way the world works in practice; to put it into law, you better figure out how to do a better job of convincing people. I don't exactly think the middle finger thing is exactly the right course of action on that front. Where do you draw the line? Rights are rights. Does an individual lose his rights as soon as he goes into business? Well, there's always this thing about rights and responsibilities. Offhand, to be totally cynical, modern corporate capitalism seems totally oriented toward getting businesses all the rights they can get without any responsibilities. The whole thing about the limited liability corporation as a "legal person" when it's convenient, something else entirely when it's not, is a legal construct, just like antitrust law. Like everything else in the law, it has political roots and is subject to political interference. Like I said, the one dollar-one vote alternative doesn't look better to me, I'd make a historical case that it can devolve into something that looks a lot like feudalism plenty fast. That's hypothetical and off point, though, all I say is that our system of government deserves respect. Cheers, Dan.

To: miraje who wrote (16180)	1/16/1998 6:15:00 PM
From: Dermot Burke	Respond to of 24154

James, The press: motherjones.com; mocks the accuracy intended by your theory>>" MSFT's success has not come about through political bootlicking". Sorry, it doesn't fly.Neither does the utopia of a laissez faire economy mean politicians would lose their rent money.They would just get more.