Re: OT: Economics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-07 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> states: - -- The free market does have an enormous disadvantage, which is that it is not self-sustaining. The great benefit of a free market in consumables is that it invokes one of the very few negative feedback systems in

Re: OT: Economics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-07 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > Paul Johnson wrote: > >> 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

Re: OT: Economics

2007-03-06 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 06 March 2007 15:30, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > 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 wh