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Subject:Re: Fairtrade & Global Justice
Date:Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:18:09 -0700
From:"Stan de SD" <standesd_DIGA_NO_A_SPAM@covad.net>
Newsgroups:alt.activism,alt.anarchism,alt.co-ops,alt.fan.noam-chomsky,alt.politics.economics

<animaminima@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1145906904.866050.15180@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
> Stan de SD wrote:
> > <animaminima@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:1145895673.792182.98210@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> > > Stan de SD wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The market system will eventually prevail, as it always does, when
> > people
> > > > get tired of paying more for a product when they see no commensurate
> > > > benefit. Misguided "fair trade" activists aren't making market
forces
> > going
> > > > away, but merely delaying the day of reckoning for subsistence
farmers
> > and
> > > > other engaged in activity which is not economically viable.
> > >
> > > Many people probably differ from you as to what a benefit is.
> > > Look at all the happy people who voted for Bush so they could
> > > have a war, a staggering deficit, and three-dollar gasoline,
> > > instead of horrible things like gay marriage.  It stands to reason
> > > some people will want virtue with their coffee.  Maybe you could
> > > have another kind of coffee for another kind of people which was
> > > guaranteed to be grown and harvested by slaves.
> >
> > I find it amusing when idiot Lefty Liberals such as yourself assume to
know
> > the intentions of others.
>
> It was you who assumed to know the intentions of others.

And specifically what was that?

>  Read
> your own posting, right above.  "The market system", that is,
> what people want, will do this or that.

Yes, the "market system": the one that WORKS, because it's based on
incentives for dedicating energies and resources to where they will be most
rewarded.

> Your move there was about as dumb as anything I have ever
> seen on the net.  It ought to get some kind of prize.

Let me guess - you're making the usual blathering noises because you're
scared of dealing with real issues. Show me above where any comments I made
regarding the subject at hand that are factually incorrect. Try dealing with
facts and logic, as opposed to your childish emotions, if you can... :O|