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"For what ever reason (!), capitalism just isn't such a great word in many parts of the world."

 

That's because they often do not have the required legal structures in place for capitalism to function, nor understand it's foundations. When titles to land are hard to get or unreliable, contract law unenforcable or unreliable, private property rights non existent, and widespread corruption in the legal system, capitalism won't work.

 

"Might they be seeing the light?!?!?"

 

OF the train heading right at them, they certainly are. The numerous proven flaws in collectivist economies are ignored in the hopes that if it's only done "right", by people who really really believe it will work, their economy will function... and they auger right in again and blame the nasty capitalists.

 

"What many fail to understand about capital management and subsequent harvest is that without limiting the amount of the medium of exchange, capitalism fails."

 

Of course it does. Without money having value because it's value is limited with respect to how much currency there is, the value of trading it is nil.

 

Why would anyone trade their labor for a medium that has no value? This is part of what is happening in down south.

 

"This limitation will always lead to the inequities we see globally"

 

Limiting the value of currencies has nothing to do with limiting the number of people who use it, nor their personal value.

 

"Capitalism will never lead to equitable cohabitation; why are so many so brainwashed?"

 

Of course it won't. Who has ever claimed it will? All it means is you have the power to choose what to value, what to sell, what to buy, and what to try and do with your labor.

 

 

Why in the world would anybody expect people to wind up equal, when people are not the same to begin with? Some work harder, some don't work at all, some are smarter, some are dumber, some value money, some don't, some value one type of labor, some another. This gurantees people will never wind up "equal", differing people with differing values, goals, and abilities will not have the same outcomes.

 

"It's funny how people were trumpeting the fall of communism, exclaiming victory for capitalism. Hah!"

 

Capitalism has won, even China is becoming more capitalist, and Castro is allowing markets to operate in Cuba.

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It is incumbent upon the *parents* in this situation to either limit or not limit their children's exposure to websites with potentially objectionable material. If parents discover their children learning about some of life's realities such as the sexual act and they find that unacceptable, *they* should not let their children view the site. But DFA will not compromise his freedom to accommodate someone *else's* moral standards. The choice is theirs to make, and the Doctor cannot censor himself simply on the off chance that a child may view what he writes. Suppose the child's parents *want* the child to view material of a sexual nature on the internet? Then the Doctor would be depriving the child of *precisely* what the parents wanted the child to find in the first place.

 

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Well, I remember some Barry Blanchard comment to a Nepal liaison officer or some such, about the Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat being something like having sex with death. So there, that's as good as I can get you when it comes to a real alpinist. I'm just a weekend dabbler myself, try to mix it up when I can...

 

(Dammit, must get rid of flu and stop read stupid Twight book)

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Who are you to say what the Doctor feels free doing or not doing, or how he chooses to do or not do that which he does, as determined by his free will in a free market. Let the market straighten things out, DFA says. And no more dumb taxes! The schooling of the public's children is limiting DFA's freedom to do stuff with his money, as is his right!

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