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Not entirely true if you're talking about a poor area whose market can't bear a price which makes supplying them profitable. The article also mentions that con
by lurchpop 16y ago
Not entirely true if you're talking about a poor area whose market can't bear a price which makes supplying them profitable.
The article also mentions that conservation is forced disproportionately on the poor given the examples of Cal in the 80s.
- stretchwithme 16y agoforced by who? nature? it is not the well off that created conditions of scarcity. They've only figured out ways of remedying scarcity by innovating and trading. Sure, the are many instances where people have been dispossessed of their land or resources. But this is hardly the free market. It is the ultimate expression of the idea that might makes right and that who gets what should be determined politically.
- lzw 16y agoAnother, good useful response modded down to being below zero because it isn't politically correct.