From: "roger" <diogenes.jones-AT-comcast.net> Subject: Re: owned vs. free market Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 07:12:37 -0700 > > I have NO credibility amongst ruminants. > > Joacim > -- or among any other discerning mammals i suspect. Joacim, you maintain that small-scale, craft production still accounts for a large fraction of the "goods and services" that constitute a modern economy. this seems to be central to your view of 'markets' and such. as i and others have noted, you are full of shit. over 80% of the GDP of the u$ (higher in sweden) is accounted for by corp production. and it's worse than that. much of the rest is agricultural and hence, even more capitalized and consolidated than the rest of the economy. what you think of as 'craft production' is so marginialized as to be virtually invisible when measured against the output of the corps. don't let the number of people involved fool you. think it through. how many Saabs and Volvos can you produce in a barn? see much ship-building done the old-fashioned way? most folks, even in europe, wear clothes that were produced in a third-world sweatshop. most of the stuff 'consumed' by swedes and amerikans was 'produced' by the big capital machine. just because you know 5 people who croft or do craft work, don't assume that you know the whole picture. pick up an introduction to economics and the capitalists themselves will tell you the whole story. roger
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