Behold!! The cancerous growth of Wal Mart!!!

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by tater

A free market is the only "natural" economy for any population larger than an extended family group (small tribe?).

I see it excactly the opposite way, as I have repeatedly pointed out in discussions with Lance. a capitalistic market theory and a truly democratic democracy can only work as intended within relativel small community sizes. The bigger the community, the more complex it becomes, the more "unüberschaubar" (unmanagable, uncheckable, nonfunctional) it becomes, and the more corruption pushes back the original intention behodn the idea. Beyond a critical community size democracy gets turned into right it's own opposite, and free capitalistic market becomes an unfree market driven by monopolies and cartels.

the community must be of that size that every member can fully overwatch it'S expanse and thus witnesses and is aware of any chnage there is taking place, so that no individual can escape accepting responsibility for his/her own deeds and actions, because it is eveident for everybody in how far these actions have effected the community's assets for ther worse or the better.

and that means we talk or relatively small communities. small towns a best.rural places where farmers and family know each other and have personal contact to each other. We talk of small idylls, a fairy-tale world that is unrealistic nowadays. And that'S why I reject the classic anglosaxon economy theory. In a way it describes an utopia, like communism does.

the corruption and degeneration of western democracies and economies for me is directly linked to gian society constructions we have formed. And that leads me to thinking that a truly dmeoicratic global society and globalised economy driven by free market ideas and constuctive capitalistic ideas, is an illusion that is impossible to work. The scaling simply is FUBAR.