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> On Mar 4, 2008, at 2:10 PM, Chuck wrote:
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>> Hmmm. I don't recall saying *anything* about how things are run
>> *inside*
>> contemporary post offices. I was pointing out the cooperation that
>> exists between international postal agencies, which isn't
>> controlled by
>> some global government.
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> Capitalist firms cooperate too. GM buys parts from vendors. Wal-Mart
> buys goods from suppliers. Construction projects are managed by
> general contractors and a host of subcontractors. There's often a
> hierarchy, with GM and Wal-Mart more powerful than the suppliers, and
> the general contractor is more powerful than the plumber, but there's
> no government involved in those relations. And it's everyday
> capitalism.
When I worked at...well, I'll leave it unnamed down here...one of the things which impressed me so was how much better the people there were at cooperating than the activists I'd worked with in the previous twenty years.
John A