On 11 Dec 2003 16:21:42 GMT ackatyu (Wdtabor) wrote:

In article emRBb.29640$ZE1.24408@fed1read04, "R. Hubbell"
writes:


Those $5 picture frames will have a long term cost that cannot be paid back.



Those $5 picture frames are what those folks have to offer, for now.


At least until all the forests are gone there, yes.



WOuld you prefer we don't buy them and let them eat picture frames?


I would prefer that they realize that it would be better for them to
not bother trying to keep up with the Jones. The Jones might seem
happy but there is a high price to pay for that happiness and it's
essentially empty.



Or pay $10 for the same frame, and not have the other $5 to spend on something
else some other third world worker wants to sell us so He and his children can
starve?

See above.



No matter how good your intentions, you cannot overrule the free market. Every
time you try to distort the market to help some poor sap you can see, you hurt
some other poor sap you don't see.

See above.



The market allocates resources better than anyone in authority can, no matter
how wise and beneficent they think they are.


Look past the "market", move away the curtain and look what's really behind it
if you have the capacity to do so. The planet is not inexhaustible, unfortunately.


R. Hubbell

Don

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Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS
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