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Saying that 12 people owned the economy 100 years ago is just silly. The market is a wildly complex and dynamic creature made up of the interactions of all who particpate, basically the entire citizenry.

your proposition and assessment is too light hearted and devoid of reality. even it contrast what contemporaries of those times have been saying.

it was not a 'wildly complex and dynamic creature' as you so galvanize. it was basically owned by 12 people. people driveling in mud at the bottom, has not made a middle class.

The wealth gap was pretty stable

seeing that you have no knowledge of history. otherwise there wouldnt be an offensive and stupid statement like this regarding those times. the people who you are telling to have 'a stable wealth gap' was driveling in mud, and it was worse than the current 85% poor at this point in time.

http://www.ralphmag.org/FL/poverty-america.html

stable it was. and it was despicable.

you come up as a BELIEVER in your speech. i dont discuss with believers. there is no end. you see things to your perspective and twist picture to your own desire - just like you have beautifully portrayed a horrible poverty as 'a stable wealth gap' (as if it was something good).

ill mark you as foe, in order to have a red dot when i see your posts, so i can refrain from discussing with you again - no hard feelings ; i have done too many discussions with 'believer' type people, be them religious, be they from the holy church of market economics. and i dont see any point in doing that anymore.
BR. audieu.

Maybe you were thinking of The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth.

funny that I see your username for the first time... while I'm search for travel information for my first visit to the Czech Republic in another browser tab

Are you Czech? / Jsi ech? ;)

Slaves and criminals were marked with red hot iron before. It happened in America and elsewhere. If that's not forced permanent identification, I wonder what is.

http://www.ralphmag.org/slave2.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branding_(law)

Can I have some Coffiest with my Chicken Little?

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you have to worry about proving that if you are accused of wrongdoing. It will take your time and energy and considerable amounts of money to prove that.

Even if you are cleared of the charge, you may never recover your reputation. If you are lucky, you end up like Richard Jewell. If you're not lucky, you end up like Fatty Arbuckle.

Don't forget to mention community radio legend Jeremy Lansman who owns the station. He's been involved in helping the Prometheus Radio Project setup some of the few LPFMs that have been licensed so far.

Here's the page he maintains about locking horns w/ the FCC over KZND.

/joeyo