File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2003/anarchy-list.0307, message 59


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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