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Smithsonian Magazine: The Shocking Savagery of America's Early History

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))2/23/2013 1:38:56 am PST

re: #185 Guanxi88

And if this Nixon-loving, Eliot-quoting, right-winger is telling you this, you can be assured it’s not some hippy-dippy feel-good crap. It’s real.

If the “Free Market” were set up so that the price of goods reflected their actual costs (from production to disposal), then a lot more of us would be living this way, and not just out of hippy-dippy idealism, but out of sound economic interest.

But, to paraphrase Adam Smith, we have come to the point where people serve the markets, the markets no longer serve the people. And when they collapse, it takes nothing less than a government bailout to repair them.