RE: FrameMaker Gets a Boost (news item in India Times, Nov. 24)

[Jim Stauffer <JStauffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, thank you Richard and Kevin for regurgitating the neo-liberal rhetoric
about global economics being savor of humankind. The *reality* of it's
history, though, has been a widening of the rich/poor gap, depressed wages,
resource exploitation, toxic environments, etc., etc.

Why can't corporations thrive in an economic model of sustainability,
national/regional self-sufficiency, and responsible behavior?

[My apologies for being waaaaay off topic for this list. And my comments are
not aimed at Adobe specifically.]

Jim Stauffer


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Combs [mailto:richard.combs@voyanttech.com]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 12:22 PM
To: Framers@FrameUsers.com; framers@omsys.com
Subject: RE: FrameMaker Gets a Boost (news item in India Times, Nov. 24)


Jim Stauffer wrote: 
 
> Ah, yes. The goals of free market, global capitalism... Make 
> a small group
> of stockholders rich by exploiting cheap labor all over the world.

The goal of _all_ economic activity is to seek out less-valued resources
(capital, labor, and/or raw materials) and convert them into more-valued
resources. Through this process, the sum total of the wealth of the world
increases, and we all become better off. 

The popularity of this kind of populist/socialist/nationalist sentiment
merely demonstrates the profound lack of economic literacy today. For anyone
with a basic knowledge of economics, this issue was settled over 200 years
ago -- see the Law of Comparative Advantage. 

If you want to reject the fundamental laws of economics, then be consistent
about it and go back to growing your own food and weaving your own clothes.
And, for gosh sake, don't buy anything "imported" from outside your own
village or hamlet. ;-) 

Richard


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Voyant Technologies, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT voyanttechDOTcom
303-223-5111
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