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From: tfb@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick)
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Subject: Re: True faiths ( was Re: The true faith )
Date: 12 Jan 2002 09:03:46 -0800
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Nils Goesche <cartan@t-online.de> writes:

> In article <slrna40nb0.7nn.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no>, Preben Randhol wrote:
>
> > Capitalisme will need to adjust itself in the near future from the
> > short-term gain view to a long-term view.
> 
> Funny; ``in the near future''.  This claim is *very* old, but we are
> still waiting ;-)

Even restricting one's view to economics alone, look at the United
States.  We're in the second economic recession in 10 years.  And in
the time in between, although unemployment was low, wages didn't grow.
This isn't much of a refultation of the claim.  Or are you just
arguing that capitalism still exists?  If so, that's not much of an
argument.

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