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On 30-12-2009 18:22, Warp wrote:
> gregjohn <pte### [at] yahoo com> wrote:
>> What the free market IS very good at is giving consumers exactly what they want
>> in the marketplace. If they want lunch counters completely free of persons with
>> dark skin, then the marketplace will provide it. If they want gas guzzlers that
>> pose fatality risks to neighbors in collisions, and raise sea levels, the
>> marketplace will provide them. If they want sustainably grown organic coffee,
>> the marketplace will prove them. If they want the absolutely cheapest
>> chocolate, the market will provide it using (literal) slave labor from Africa.
>
> I'm sorry, but that was one of the most ridiculous things I have read in
> a long time.
>
> You are equating capitalism with racism? That must be the most far-fetched
> comparison I have ever heard in my life.
That deserves a price as one of the most far fetched straw man arguments
I heard in a long time.
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