and see what happens. Business will always trend to monopoly whenever possible, just as capital will always try to minimize the portion of revenue going to labor. And admittedly, labor will always attempt to gain a larger portion of revenue.

Keeping the balance of the means of production is always a problem, the argument is who can best do this?

The arguement that the market does this best assumes that a free and open market has ever existed and is now operable.

The arguement that government can do this best assumes a structure driven by good intentions and directed towards the "Public good."

Both sets of assumptions are unwarranted by reality and overly optomistic.

Somehow we muddle along until a new synthesis develops. In the meantime the sort of event posted here gives us something to examine.

Publius