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Old 04-10-2010, 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by OldPokey View Post
Sure free market forces can work. Just as long as people take responsibility for the damage their choices or abuses do to others. If the penalty for killing employees due to negligence was to suffer the same fate as the victims did, then there would be a lot less of this garbage.
If. But it never works that way. The ideal free market model has it that unscrupulous operators will be eventually punished by the marketplace - competition will drive them out, etc. Sometimes it works that way but frequently not, IMO.
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