RE: Nation as Jointly Owned Property( was Re: FWD [forteana] Health Care: USA, Iraq & Canada)

From: Randy S (cryofan@mylinuxisp.com)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 08:12:46 MDT

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    Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal@smigrodzki.org> said:

    > Randy wrote:
    >
    > >
    > > How about if you and I and several other business partners develop a
    > > product, then you turn around and sell the trade secrets relating to
    > > the product to a competitor. You make out big time and I lose out big
    > > time. Oh wait, I forgot-- because the competitor did not have to
    > > spend the money and time to develop the product (just the money he
    > > gave you), he can sell the product more cheaply than our company
    > > would have. Less development expenses, etc.
    > >
    > > And now, you say, in reply, I (and the other partners) can buy that
    > > product more cheaply than before. If I can make enough at Walmart to
    > > buy the product, of course.
    > >
    > > Gee, business partner, please don't do me any more "favors."
    > >
    > > Of course, not to put too fine a point (guess I do have to do
    > > that...), as an analogy, we Americans and our ancestors built this
    > > country into a place with tremendous competitive advantages: we as
    > > voters control and have exclusive labor market access to the biggest
    > > consumer market ever. That means that we can charge far more when we
    > > sell our labor here in the USA to labor buyers who want to sell
    > > products to this enormous consumer market. Compare to third
    > > worlders, for example.
    >
    > ### So where is the analogy? You are one of the Founders? You built this
    > country? You hammered the nails in the Transcontinental Railway?

    I and my ancestors helped build and defend this country. All citizens
    are "owners."

    >
    > Nah, the analogy goes like this - you are a junior partner, who wants to
    > take over the firm built by generations, stop hiring workers who are cheaper
    > and maybe better than him, and wants to get paid by seniority instead of
    > real work.

    Some animals are more equal than others, huh? Sorry, bud. This is America.
    All American CITIZENS are equal with respect to the constitution. Maybe you
    want to move to a country where Investors and Entrepreneurs are elevated as
    demigods above the hoi polloi. Oops, that's right--neoconservative propaganda
    is already well on its way to making America into just that.

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    -Randy

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