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Has the internet, along with lax control of corporate power, allowed a corporate conspiracy against the puplic to prevail?
Quote:
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. it is impossible, indeed, to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies, much less render them necessary.
A regulation which obliges all of those af the same trade in a particular town to enter their names and places of abode in in a public register, facilitates such assemblies. It connects individuals who might never otherwise be known to one another, and gives every man of the trade a direction where to find every other man of it.
a regulation which enables those of the same trade to tax themselves, in order to provide for their poor, their sick, their widdows and orphans, by giving them a common interrest to manage,renders such assemblies necessary."
What do you think fellow slaves?