[ale] OT: if this won't make you want to puke....

[Jim]

On Friday 17 January 2003 05:29 pm, Steven M. Jasmin wrote:
> Thats why the call it a free market people...he deserves his money and has
> earned it. If you dont like microsoft for being a huge company with
> complete market share you might want to consider moving to Russia or some
> other communist/socialist country. I mean seriously for all of the reasons
> to be pissed of at microsoft the fact that they are millionaires is at the
> very bottom of the list. They earned it and deserve to reap the beneifits
> of their work. Hence they call it a free market economy and Bill Gates is
> one of the few people who has truly achieved the fabled "American Dream"
> that everyone loves to harp on.....

This free market economy stabilized and grew under the Sherman Antitrust Act, 
the same law that was used to prosecute Microsoft not so long ago. And there 
is nothing socialistic about it. It just recognizes that one company, if 
allowed to run wild, can squash competition and prevent a truly free market 
from flourishing. The law is over one hundred years old (before the Soviet 
Union came into existence). If you really want to understand what makes free 
markets and capitalism work, you should study that law and its history. You 
should also understand that most businesses within the United States 
willfully operate under the strictures of that law. Only Microsoft, in recent 
years, has assumed that it has a right to be exempt. If you like the idea of 
monopolies and corporate feudalism, then lobby Congress to repeal antitrust 
laws. 
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