A George Soros quote
Connected, a Corante-hosted blog helped me in my interminable search for substantive quotations (how's that for a fukked up hobby?). In an article commenting on the juxtaposition of the Public Domain Enhancement Act and RIAA trying to sue individuals, they pulled the following from an old editorial he wrote for The Atlantic:
"Every society needs some shared values to hold it together. Market values on their own cannot serve that purpose, because they reflect only what one market participant is willing to pay another in a free exchange. Markets reduce everything, including human beings (labor) and nature (land), to commodities. We can have a market economy but we cannot have a market society. In addition to markets, society needs institutions to serve such social goals as political freedom and social justice."
This is why I find the Republican extremists currently in office to be so dangerous to the future of the nation. "We can have a market economy but we cannot have a market society. "
Excuse me while I go read the whole essay.
posted by Prometheus 6 at 6/26/2003 07:56:58 AM |
