Re: BRIAN: Capitalism lover extrordinaire

[briand@xxxxxxxxxxx (Brian Carnell)]

On Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:55:31 -0600 (CST), HANLY@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>COMMENT: Who owns rivers anywhere?

In most governments the government ends up exercising all property
rights over rivers.

>. The poisoning
>happening in China is due to increased production (which you think is great)
>and lessening of government regulation (deregulation) through reliance on
>the market. Surely these are all
>things that should be approved by any right thinking person.

The poisoning is happening becase the vaunted Chinese Communist
government is rolling over and letting it be poisoned.  There is
nothing inherent in increased productivity that requires we allow
people to poison us.  Of course since Communism essentially destroys
strong property rights, there isn't much recourse to go after
polluters there (and of course it wasn't private concerns that
polluted Eastern Europe).



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