A perfect example (on a micro level) of the purely capitalist state are the american slave plantations of the 18th and 19th century. And it would appear some of our elected leaders and captains of industry would gladly return us to this purer form of capitalism. Some of our fellow pilots, who've drunk the ubber-conservative koolaide, will only wake up when they're provided their daily ration of hog ears and pig tails after setting the parking brake. Personally, I much prefer the current arrangement.

Back to the original subject, I am suspect of any requests by Airline CEOs for a return to some level of regulation. Yet this kind of chatter seems to be increasing, among management who once said, "never". Although I tend to agree with setting additional regulations to the industry, I'm not sure that we are all speaking the same language, and would hope that the various unions are getting ahead of this to insure that labor is protected in any such new system.