RE: [DMCA_Discuss] Re: [dvd-discuss] "Consumer Benefits" of DRMsolutionsoversight hearing - witness list

[Steve Stearns <sterno(at)bigbrother.net>]

On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 15:43, Dean Sanchez wrote:
> There is no inherent requirement that a capitalist society also be a 
> democratic one; however, a democratic or republic one almost by definition 
> requires a capitalist economy.  

While I think that a democratic society does lend itself well to a
capitalist system it by no means requires it.  There are substantial
amounts of socialism built into numerous economies of democratic
countries.  There's no clear reason, that I'm aware of, why a democratic
society couldn't simply vote in a centrally planned socialist economy.  

Really it seems that what works best is some sort of middle ground with
some socialist and some capitalist institutions.  A capitalist system
tends to cause a tremendous split in the distribution of wealth over the
long term.  A socialist system tends to maintain equity but at the
expense of wealth growth.  A blend of these two systems allows for a
hybrid system that provides greater long term stability and growth.

Now I've strewn way off topic so I'll just leave it at that...

---Steve