[MD] The American Ruling Class

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On 13 Dec 2009 at 10:08, khaledsa wrote:

> Andre Platt
> 
> One can walk into a Las Vegas casino look around and think ' wow what a
> dynamic free market this place is'
> 
> On the surface, it's got the hustle and bustle of markets going back
> hundreds of years. Any one is free to come and go as they please, and
> with any free market, some win and some loose.
> 
> Well do they?
> 
> We all know that the odds are in favor of the house, otherwise they could
> not stay in business and employ all these people and make payroll.
> 
> Some may object to it as being immoral, on religious grounds or
> otherwise.
> 
> But the bigger question is, what GOOD is this place bringing to help us
> advance the social over the biological cause.

Seems to me a place people can go to have fun and relax so long as it 
doesn't hurt others enhances the social order. 

> Unfortunately, today's Free market is no different than walking into a
> casino. It's really not free, and the odds are stacked in favor of the
> house.

If you mean by "stacked in favor of the house" that businesses must 
make a profit to survive (and support governments via taxes) then I 
don't see the problem.

Your assumption is that when someone exchanges his wages for a box 
of cereal,a bottle of milk or a stack of chips at the blackjack table that 
somehow he is getting ripped off. So long as his choice is free I don't 
see the problem.

If you know of a better method of producing and exchanging goods and 
services, I'm sure we'd all like to here it.    

Platt