tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497840216476810829.post6516358695742006185..comments2024-01-10T01:27:40.208-05:00Comments on BOYCE'SPAPER: My Log 753 August 24 2019: Chronicles from my Tenth Decade: 188 Remember the name Gerry Fortin; he and I wrote a book about his life, and in the coming months I will publish occasional extracts from the book; it tells the history of modern Quebec as seen by a committed working manboyce richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14166421633433425789noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497840216476810829.post-36851229138312337912019-08-30T23:32:53.861-04:002019-08-30T23:32:53.861-04:00Just saw this comment on another forum that I thin...Just saw this comment on another forum that I think you could relate to, Boyce ... "Jon Hardy Ah, the myth of the "free market place." I, too, like free markets, when we have small enterprises well regulated that produce something worthwhile. But private business never has and cannot tackle everything needed by the public and is at odds with us when not given limits. It's overriding purpose is to produce profit for its owners, whatever the cost. Further, it's well known that capital over time centralizes into fewer and fewer hands, concentrating wealth and power. It never stays a system of small shops. Markets aren't free where dominated by monopolies and oligopolies, and we aren't free either. Enormous wealth concentration clearly is incompatible with democracy, and its wealthiest use their wealth and power to divide us by race, class, religion, national origin, gender, etc. to keep themselves in power."<br />Pearce8https://www.blogger.com/profile/02728143533789267037noreply@blogger.com