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So Who Is Responsible for Getting Bread Into the Supermarket?

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  • PaulF81
    PaulF81 Posts: 1,727 Forumite
    Here is an interesting corollary gen....

    The human body, in particular, it's cells, perform inside of a system, which consists of simple rules. Very simple rules mind. the beauty of nature comes when those cells, in great numbers, perform to those basic rules in unison.

    What happens now when we get a rogue cell that decides not to perform to the rules gen? The cell divides and divides, and becomes a cancer.

    Any system, from the smallest to the largest, needs rules and boundaries. The housing market needs dynamic lending limits in my opinion, to prevent healthy markets from becoming disjointed. Same with the financial market, same with state spending.
  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    The Nanny state Generali. People can longer think for themselves. Just expect DC and GO to come up with a solution.

    I can assure you I DO NOT expect them to come up with THE SOLUTION.
    If they put forward A SOLUTION it will likey be hugely flawed.
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • toby3000
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    Generali wrote: »
    Under a free market, people respond to price signals so as food prices rise, more people grow food. If I sow a salad crop tomorrow then I can harvest inside a month if the Government lets me and soldiers don't confiscate it.

    Assuming you had access the land. And the resources to buy seeds and tend the land, and the weather was cooperative. Besides the fact that salad crops are of very limited nutritional value.

    Actually, is there any country where food supply is left entirely to the free market?
  • zagubov
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    toby3000 wrote: »
    Assuming you had access the land. And the resources to buy seeds and tend the land, and the weather was cooperative. Besides the fact that salad crops are of very limited nutritional value.

    Actually, is there any country where food supply is left entirely to the free market?

    I'd be amazed if there was, just as I'd be amazed if any country scrapped their army or police and let Serco take on the task.:D
    There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    antrobus wrote: »
    No, Amartya Sen's argument was that there has never been a famine in a democratic country with a free press.

    WHile that is true as a fact, I'm not sure it tells us anything useful.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    neverdespairgirl wrote: »
    WHile that is true as a fact, I'm not sure it tells us anything useful.

    Hi NDG! Welcome back!

    Domocracies tend to have free markets because capitalism and democracy are effectively the same things. The only rich dictatorships i can think of are ones that pump oil out of the ground.

    The market is a very efficient way to feed people.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    Hi NDG! Welcome back!

    Domocracies tend to have free markets because capitalism and democracy are effectively the same things. The only rich dictatorships i can think of are ones that pump oil out of the ground.

    The market is a very efficient way to feed people.

    I agree with you.

    But it's also the case that free press and universal franchise post-date the agricultural revolution as a concept. Which rather helps the association.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
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