From: geeman@best.com
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 00:14:28 +0800
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: Re: Marc Andreessen on encryption and CDA
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I suppose that's why US displays the greatest income disparity between rich
and poor of
any of the industrialized nations?   Why some 10 or 20 billionaires
collectively own more
wealth than some 20% of the world's population? Or were you being sarcastic?

At 07:58 PM 6/30/97 -0700, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>Ah, but what is a market except voluntary transactions between people?
>What is good for the market is good for the people.
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>-Declan
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>On Mon, 30 Jun 1997 geeman@best.com wrote:
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>> My biggest problem is when the pundits (and by extension, those that punt
>> to them)
>> frame this entire debate in terms of the Market.  To do so is to argue that
>> only solutions
>> that are good for The Market are good solutions; that when a particular
>> policy is market-agnostic
>> or market-negative, even though it may be good policy for People (yes,
>> remember them ???) it is irrelevant or
>> bad.  This debate is NOT about the Worldwide Encryption Market!
>> 
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