AtD RE: ATD Spoilers

[Mike Weaver]

Monte re-asserted

>"Commerce is indeed a powerful system, but a voluntary one. To forget that
>is to trivialize not only the plight of real slaves, past and present, but
>our own ability -- however rarely exercised -- to choose how far to buy into
>it [commerce]."
>
>There *is* a difference. It is important. It is not all the difference in
>the world-- but that doesn't keep it from being important.
>

Sorry Monte - have to disagree with you there. We who get by 
comfortably in the mainstream of the consuming world do have a choice 
of how far we buy into it - we've got the morality wealth endows and 
can choose how we spend it. It remains ill-gotten wealth however we use it.
Those who have the choices of sweatshops or starvation, shit job or 
scrabbling are less likely to appreciate the voluntary nature of the system.
The difference is only important sociologically - politically and 
morally it's the same old story of the elite competing for maximum 
control of our world's resources, with the rest of humanity 
harnessed, by various means, to the continuation of that struggle.