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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft takes on history
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In article <slrnaet3n4.1kd.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>, Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> writes:

> The problem with the free market is that the only steering comitee it is
> supposed to have is the consumers. This is not enough. There will always
> be the collective irrationalism to hinder it, besides the consumers do
> not have any means of dealing with the cheating in the free market.

Certainly they do.  They can band together.  One of the earliest examples
of this is called "government".