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Re: Anti-Discrimination LawsJohn Pastore (bwplacar@CANCUN.RCE.COM.MX)Mon, 1 Jul 1996 04:16:58 +0000
> The operation of the free market requires anti-trust laws. In order > to guarantee the operation of economic self-interest, the one > category of economic self-interest we must outlaw is that which > makes the operation of economic self-interest impossible. It behooves one to know then why free trade agreements are made with entities which are not democracies and whose economies are monopolized by a ruling elite whose self-interests are just that: their's. Another consideration, especially for those countries which are democracies and supposedly operate their economies according to free enterprise, is the new globalization of businesses as becoming apparent on the i-net, and its potential to form not only local monoplies but also international cartels. Recent announcements by American Airlines and British Airways to, for all intent and purposes, merge, and new consumer access programs introduced by American Airlines, and now available on the i-net, may be a case in point. As scary as these new potentials are is the present globalization of business transactions on the i-net being, for all intent and purposes, based on credit cards, rather than cash. Most of the new programs for buying one's own airline ticketing, for example, do not operate at all without first entering credit card information. John Pastore 'Venture-Out' Hotel Plaza Caribe Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mx bwplacar@cancun.rce.com.mx
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