Re: [Pen-l] Prostitution

[ravi <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 27, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
> Bill Lear wrote:
> > > If we had laissez-faire we would have no United States, no General  
> > > Motors,
> > > no unions.  We'd still be cave-dwellers.
>
> Carrol Cox  wrote:
> > This is unfair to cave=dwellers, who seem to have taken care of each
> > other rather more than is the norm today.
>
> Who cares about the cave-dwellers? what Bill was saying, I believe,
> was that with laissez-faire, we'd have no _housing industry_, no
> big-money construction companies ... we'd still be living in caves.

I see your (and Bill's) point, but IMHO the cave-dweller correction  
matters: a lot of the attraction of libertarian ideas is the misguided  
intuition that we float around as free atoms and more importantly,  
that was our original state in nature. To the contrary, human survival  
was more premised on co-operation and interdependence during cave- 
dwelling days (thanks to which today a few can proclaim themselves  
self-made). I doubt you will find any libertarians and free marketers  
among cave-dwellers ;-). (*)


> ask not for whom the bell tolls, it Toll Brothers for thee.



;-) Up ~ 5% yesterday despite bad housing news.

	--ravi


(*) which is not to support argument by appeal to nature.

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