BklynMagus wrote:
>
> > A major, if not _the_ major goal of a socialist regime in
> any industrialized nation is to slow practically to zero the
> rate of innovation. Given basic needs, innovation in products
> or in production techniques is (except under extraordinary
> circumstances) destructive of human well-being.
>
> I hope extraordinary circumstances would include developing
> better durgs (for AIDS for instance) to battle disease.
Obviously, and I beleive everyone who is even a firm social democrat believes that drugs should not be commodities.
Carrol