[MD] Dynamic Development at all costs?

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
After extolling the virtues of "balance" Arlo then proceeds to 
present a typical Marxist one-sided view of American economic history.

[Arlo]
Oh great, the ridiculous talk-radio bullshit right from the start. 
Why not say "Arlo The Enemy of Liberty and Freedom", or "Arlo The 
Villainous Enslaver of Man"?

And while I extoll the virtues of balance, I do so by taking Pirsig's 
own words on the matter.

[Platt]
"Political entrepreneurs and their governmental patrons are the real 
villains of American business history and should be portrayed as 
such. They are the real robber barons."

[Arlo]
Yes, how dare those robber barons of "guvermint" force the majority 
of people to receive fair wages, safe workplaces, and labor rights. 
How dare they force the majority of people to accept clean rivers and 
toxic chemical dump free communities. Why how evil those guvermint 
robber barons are!

While we all know revisionist history is a popular with you, too many 
people know all too well from first or second-generation accounts of 
the conditions that existed that prompted the PEOPLE to demand social 
regulation. Maybe if the Noble and Virtiuous Meat Kings of Chicago 
could have found a way to consider something other than raw profit, 
maybe if they had not turned the Chicago River into a coagulated 
blood stew, well, maybe you'd have a point.

No matter how you parse it, social regulation was demanded by the 
people in response to the low quality conditions that prevailed. It 
was not something forced on the happy people by big, bad guvermint.

[Platt]
By why bother accurately portraying history or pointing to the 
benefits of industrialization if your agenda is to advance socialism?

[Arlo]
Oh great, more moronic Limbaugh crap.

[Platt]
That is the reason the major capitalist economies of the world have 
done so much better since World War II than the major socialist economies.

[Arlo]
Since WWII, all "major capitalists economies" have been mixed 
economies, all have had minimum wage laws, all have had workplace 
safety codes, all have had disposal and pollution regulations, all 
have adopted public education, all have had child labor laws. And 
yes, the wealth brought by providing openness and the quality of life 
brought by social regulations have combined to make Western  markets 
superior to those employed by Stalinst Russia and Communist China (then).

You continue to act like you are comparing 1890's America with 1980's 
Russia. By 1945, America's markets were balanced. Something I am sure 
everyone should be thankful for.

[Platt]
Marxists can run, but they can't hide.

[Alro]
What are they holding auditions for a guest-host slot on the Limbaugh 
Program? And so we close with more moronic talk-radio crap. Boo! Arlo 
is a Marxist! He wants to enslave you and send you all to gulags!

Boo!