Market Forces

 Regressive (and wasteful) Cycle of Events

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 A `frontier state' has free resources and free space, therefore "market forces" create
 `competition' and `democracy'.

 In time it becomes a `settled state' with _no_ free resources and _no_ free space,
 therefore "market forces" will consolidate `ownership' into monopolies: of money,
 land and political power - leading to the elimination of democracy.

 Owners of `monopolies' become `aristocracy' - system then ossifies.

 Another (internal or external) group sees the ossified system as morally disgusting,
 or as easy-pickings. Either way - it takes over.

 The new group develops as a "frontier state". And the cycle continues.

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 "Market Forces" are always wasteful, always tend to weakening of democracy (moving
 to slavery), and always over-exploit scarce resources, resulting in `famines' and
 `crashes' and deprivation of the poor.

 We see this throughout history and around us today.

 But eventually unregulated `market forces' always kill those who've made corrupt use
 of privilege.

 See www.perceptions.couk.com/genes2.html

 also - what was behind those "witchcraft trials"

 www.perceptions.couk.com/witchcraft.html

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 Check - `Altruist Survivor' pages

 Note: some previous, more successful systems were -

 a) joint ownership of all land and resources, regulated by individual ethos
 ("religion") - Native American.

 b) joint ownership of all land and resources, regulated by custom and maybe
 folk-ethos ("religion") - native Celts in Britain and Europe.


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