On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:44:12 -0500 Marcus Brubaker <marcus.brubaker-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

that capitalism has the advantage that non-participants (non-capital holders in this case) don't cause the system to fail for participants.

No, the "non-participants" just starve...Capitalism works *real* well for about, oh, say 3% of the world's population, the rest barely eke out a living on the margins. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Reality is what you can get away with." -- Robert Anton Wilson -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml