OT: What's with the Proms this year??

It doesn?t involve any pooling of resources when an individual sells his goods or services to another with no state involvement.

But then that isn't capitalism is it?

No capital is involved Its just trade.

Wagnerian parents have to put their children's names down at birth. Or you could go to Covent Garden and understand what the operas are about from the surtitles.

No doubt about it.

I agree.

I saw Jack Bruce with a "scratch" band (Dick Heckstall-Smith and others) in a dive in Newcastle-under-Lyme. They were superb. Of course he had his original liver then. I suppose you have to be there on one of his good nights.

Another Dave

Yes it is.

No social is involved with socialism either.

And no commune with communism either.

Not when you are providing a service.

And even when capital is involved, there doesn?t have to be any pooling of resources, the capital can come from just one individual, most obviously with a loan.

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