RE: Don't Let The Door Hit You In The Ass On The Way Out, Ron
November 15, 2012 at 5:02 pm
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2012 at 5:06 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 15, 2012 at 4:46 pm)Tiberius Wrote: More that some issues should be outside the role of government.Lockstep with you on that one. We'd have to pick a particular issue though if we wanted to get more specific. Alternative energy?
Quote:More that a free market ultimately has to bow to the will of the consumers.Well, so long as the will of the consumers is within their power to demand. I can demand a Bentley all day long but I still can't afford one. Still need a car though.....What about the famous example of Henry Fords Model T. "You can have it any color you like, as long as it's black." I think the market is equally as capable of making demands or setting terms on the consumer.
Quote:More that with a free market, small business can thrive, and you don't need people to purchase "en-masse"; you just need enough people to purchase from the small businesses out there. Having a niche in the market is a very powerful thing.It's powerful for the producer of the good absolutely (I'm a niche marketer...it's great for me). I don't know that it's great for something like alternative energy though (or energy at all).
I think that one of the major advantages of a mixed market over a free market is our ability to make that market work for us in ways that we deem to be important (while the obvious drawback is that those who "deem" these things aren't beyond reproach...nor are the things we "deem" themselves beyond reproach even if the "deemers" as it were...were). Markets are a tool, aren't they? I like to make my tools do work.
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