Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings
Curt Howland wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
>> > So the Standard Oil Trust was a good thing, and we should welcome
>> > it's return?
>
> During the time Standard Oil was in operation, the price of kerosine
> dropped some 90%.
They're still in operation, though IIRC they call themselves Imperial Oil
now. You can identify their gas stations because they're Exxon in the
states and Esso everywhere else.
> There may very well have been some nasty, reprehensible things done,
> which deserve both wide publicity and boycott. A company, no matter
> how large their market share, cannot force you to buy their product.
Try not eating. :o)
> Condemnation merely because they were big is envy. I see the same
> vitriol thrown at Microsoft,
I'm not condemning them because they're big, I'm condemning them because
they
> because of the same lack of awareness of how an unregulated market works.
Laissez-faire economics is an impossible pipe dream and Germany proved it.
Taken to it's natural end, you get Germany's pre-WWII out-of-control rapid
inflation where soon it takes millions of dollars just to make a basic
grocery run.
Reply to: