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Old 01-16-2009, 09:21 AM
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Re: Socialism and property rights

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Originally Posted by IGOTJOINTS4YA View Post
Cattle is the backbone of the Somolian economy(meager as it may be), and when one man can restrict the exporting of that cattle to only one country, that allows that country to set there own rates. The Cattle herders are forced to sell there cattle for barely enough to survive on, and is the purest form of a monopoly.
Um. It seems to me that the monopoly discussed in the article is being coercively maintained by a government.

Did I misread it?
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