[MD] A modern allegory

[Christoffer Ivarsson]

Hi Khaled

> the unfortunate part, free market capitalism is by far the better of all
> alternatives, as apposed to socialism or communism.
>
> that being said, when a failure happens in a free market, socialist
> responses, such as government bail out, should not happen.

> Foe example when
> a pharmaceutical company lobbies for the government to intervene on its
> behalf to stop cheaper drugs to come in from Canada, that is one way
> socialized medicine.
> it helps the big corporation while preventing the little guy from
> obtaining heath care at an affordable price. So much for free market. Oh
> yeah they will tell you that they are doing that to ensure the quality of
> your medications.

OR you could do it the way we do it over here. Which is real socialism. We 
the people collectively own the only pharmaceutical retailing company there 
is (a state monopoly) and that monopoly ensures that the medicines that are 
sold are properly tested, of course, and that the prices are kept on a good 
level since it's status as a state ownd company doesn't require it to sell 
for profit, just to go round.

I could mention the school system and the healthcare system in general as 
well,  but I think you get the picture.

The main thing about it is that I - being a socialist - say that key things 
in society, Schooling, Healthcare and such, can NEVER be allowed to be 
subject to the whims of the free market and the hunger for profit that 
throughout history has continuously placed the human rights and values in 
second hand.


We know, as surely as we can know anything, that the free marked is not 
concerned with human beings. Just money.  Thus it cannot be entrusted with 
the lives of human beings, and since it is only concerned with people as as 
means in a line of production or as consumers, it cannot be entrusted with 
the development of human knowledge, which necessarily needs to be as free 
from profit-influences as possible.

//Chris