[extropy-chat] Seven cents an hour? (was: Riots in France)

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

I used to shop in government monopoly grocery stores as a small boy,
standing patiently for an hour or so in line to buy bread and milk. I
have a very personal, seething hatred for government monopolies, the
kind of hatred that comes from direct exposure to communism as a
child.

Trust me Stuart, if Wal-Mart was anything close to a government
monopoly, I would be its vocal enemy.

Rafal

On 11/15/05, The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Like "money is bad" (was it Stuart who wrote it?).
> > It is purely
> > puerile, and so surprising coming from Stuart who is
> > otherwise quite
> > smart.
> >
>
> Alright fine. You WalMart-o-philes win. All hail
> Wal-Mart. Let it supply all goods and services from
> shoes and food to medical care and gasoline at the
> cheapest most efficient price. Let it dump unlimited
> funds into pro-Walmart special interest groups until
> they control the government too. Then we will have one
> ubermonopoly that runs the government. That would make
> it different from the USSR, China, or North Korea how?
>
>