Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> gregjohn <pte### [at] yahoocom> 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.
>



us all happy free comfortable, or as many as can possibly ever be happy and
comfortable.  Capitalism, the market mechanism, tends to produce what the
consumers want.  The consumers are corrupted by sin.  Sometimes they either
openly want bad things or they out of ignorance don't realize that something is
bad until it's nearly too late (CFC's, CO2).

Without the nagging, the marketplace has in history done things like give us
black-free lunch counters. The Jew-free business block. Or Hummers.  My solution
is more and more nagging of what choices people are making.  Reminding them of
the externalities, holding them accountable to standards whether they like it or
not.

And nonviolent use of the soapbox in the public square to inform persons of the
negative externalities of their actions is what the capitalists call socialism.

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