Is there such thing as too much profit?

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Actually the antiques market is quite well self-regulated. Most collectors are quite knowledable and understanding of prices and value, especially since the advent of the internet, and anyone who overprices their stock will be sitting on it for a long time.

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Toadborg wrote:

Actually I think capitalism is pretty good and that evry other system has been far uglier and nastier, can you think of a btter one as practised on any large scale?

Most people that moan about capatalism are just jealous that they have not got a bigger slice of the cake.

Most people in the West are materialistic and this ciuses huge problems worldwide.

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dave777 wrote:

Most people that moan about capatalism are just jealous that they have not got a bigger slice of the cake.

Most people in the West are materialistic and this ciuses huge problems worldwide.

Incisive analysis from our resident fash.

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Aladdin wrote:

Actually the antiques market is quite well self-regulated. .

not when it comes to buying and shipping.

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if thirteen billion quid is obscene ...it puts into comparison the british consumption of illegal drugs.
estimated at between seven and ten billion quid a year.
whats that ...three hundred quid a second?
all tax free and going to criminals and terrorists.

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Oil companies pay in the region of £10bn in corporation tax, so they are hardly making out like bandits and giving nothing back.