08-16-2016, 12:44 AM
(08-15-2016, 09:56 PM)djam Wrote: To hear me tell it, you would understand that big businesses, and the real bad guys who really do exist, like the vampires in the pharm industry? When they collude with government, that is NOT free market capitalism. But again that is what happens when you give the government more control over the ecomony, and socialism would give them total control. Who wants that? Dude you need to read up bad. Research what capitalism really is, read some Adam Smith. Learn what "cronyism" really is, because it IS what you are upset about. I dont think you and I disagree that things are not how they should be, but our definitions and solutions are way off for sure. I used to think just like you tho man, so i kind of know your talking points a little. The more I dug and learned, the more I realized i had been duped.
Have you ever heard the phrase, "corner the market"?
Capitalist don't want free markets. They want to control the markets so there isn't a free market so they can corner it. No or few competitors allows them to manipulate supply and demand and thus the prices.
Free market my ass. If corporations wanted free markets they wouldn't collude to prevent them from happening. It takes a minimum of at least two to collude. You blame the politicians and absolve the capitalists. Or subcategorize them as "big business" and the other capitalists are nice capitalist.
Capitalists don't want competitors. Put two delis on opposites sides of any street corner in NYC and one is trying to put the other out of business and vice versa. They aren't congratulating each other on a good day in sales. They are all trying to increase their market share all the time.
A capitalist crying about a free market is just camouflaging the fact they are trying to do the opposite. Do you know who wants a closed market without competitors more than a capitalist? No one because then they have a monopoly.
