(05-18-2017, 04:21 AM)Galen Wrote:(05-09-2017, 05:59 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(05-09-2017, 10:51 AM)Eric the (Green) Wrote: Galen writes about the finite limits of resources, then sets loose corporations that destroy the Nature we depend on.
He believes in nearly-untrammeled power of giant corporations to mistreat employees and corner markets.
You forget that markets are very good at allocating resources in a finite environment. (pointless insult redacted)
Magnates can also be extremely efficient in allocating resources -- especially when they manage and exploit a scarcity of their own design. Of course we know how that works.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.