tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18739756.post6563722281551057416..comments2009-06-28T10:08:01.995-07:00Dolor Ipsumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388709280801183627dolor.ipsum@gmail.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18739756.post-9498176766580303392009-06-28T10:08:01.995-07:002009-06-28T10:08:01.995-07:00Personally, I don&#39;t think a totally free marked can work because people are greedy. Even a cursory examination will show that a great deal of our society&#39;s woes can be trace to our need to have it all and have it now. This of course is in my most humble opinion.Dolor Ipsumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10388709280801183627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18739756.post-5902571923491425662009-06-28T09:53:13.410-07:002009-06-28T09:53:13.410-07:00Somewhere on the Web, there is an interesting story about aluminum cans. The aluminum industry was ramped up for WWII. When the war ended, we had all this excess capacity with no reason to exist. So they mounted a big campaign to get everyone to use aluminum cans.<br /><br />The problem is not the supply of bauxite. Apparently we has a lot of that. The problem is that the manufacture of aluminum takes a lot of energy. So we use all this energy to sell people small amounts of what is essentially sugar water, and to ship it all over the country. <br /><br />It is incredibly inefficient. Among other things, it shows the falsity of the argument that a free market will always result in efficiency. It clearly does no such thing.: Joseph j7uy5http://www.blogger.com/profile/12806669663107445151noreply@blogger.com