From: "Robert Comer" 

>apart from the "only" bit

I'm afraid that's the kicker, and it's very free market theory.  That's why
you need antitrust laws to stop it.

> I suppose that's where the socialist ID steps in to break up monopolies
> ...

Antitrust isn't socialist.


--
Bob Comer


"Tony Williams"  wrote in message
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> Robert Comer wrote:
>>>I saw a cartoon the other day which got me thinking about ID and how it's
>>>incompatible with western capitalism. The whole point of the free market
>>>is to promote improvements (growth, profits, innovations) by survival of
>>>the fittest.
>>
>>
>> I just don't get that -- market  evolution in any way, and
free market
>> doesn't strictly advocate survival of (only) the fittest,
>
> Yes it is, and yes it does (apart from the "only" bit).
That's the whole
> rationale behind hands-off government and letting the free market decide
> which companies succeed and which fail. You'd hardly advocate that if you
> didn't think that the free market made for a more successful economy.
>
>> once you get rid of everyone else, no more free market.
>
> I suppose that's where the socialist ID steps in to break up monopolies
> ...
>
>>
>>>ID'ers must, to be consistent, deny that the free market works. Therefore
>>>they must all be godless commies.
>>
>>
>> Hardly.
>
> See above.
>
> --
> Tony

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