[MD] Metaphysical issues: DQ

[Woods Woods]

Platt:
Where is the free market? In the U.S., South Korea, Hong Kong (before the 
communist takeover), and other capitalist countries compared to European 
socialist countries, as described in Lila:
"The Metaphysics of Quality says the free market makes everybody richer-by 
preventing static economic patterns from setting in and stagnating economic 
growth. 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." 
(Lila, 17) 
As used in Lila and most everywhere else, the free market is a relative 
term, comparing a economic system of central planning to one of individual 
free choice. That's OK for abstract comparative purposes. But as you know, 
two planks of the Communist Manifesto were adopted in the U.S. in 1913 with 
the passage of the graduated income tax and the creation of the Federal 
Reserve. Since then it's been a slow but steady degeneration in the U.S. to 
full socialism. 


woods:
    Thank G-d.  I really was about to think something very dark and misconceiving had 
entered this forum.  You see, if the "two planks of the Communist Manifesto were adopted 
in the U.S. in 1913", then as I said we don't have a free market.  It's somewhere underneath 
these "two planks", but these "two planks" have a controlling power that is ever the more 
growing.  So, no free market in the U.S. anywhere.  Along with the rest of the global market due 
to BIS, which is the central place of operation in Switzerland of all central banks around the globe.  
The Federal Reserve is just one hub of this BIS.  That's how the global interest rate was cut 
simultaneously the other day.  I would say the capitalist economies have gone astray from 
the free market, noted for one by your "two planks".


woods