The trouble is that without the free market and the private corporations, we probably wouldn’t have computers at all; and if we did, the operating system would be written and maintained by some department of the state. Bureaucracy is odious wherever we find it. The sole advantage of Mr. Gates’s bureaucracy is that Microsoft can go out of business if enough people choose to stop buying its products. If we voted on operating systems, there would be no legal alternative anywhere.
I can forgive the free market many of its sins because it lets me take my business across the road. As Churchill said of democracy, capitalism is the worst of all economic systems, except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
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Date: 2007-05-26 10:11 am (UTC)I can forgive the free market many of its sins because it lets me take my business across the road. As Churchill said of democracy, capitalism is the worst of all economic systems, except all those others that have been tried from time to time.