Comment Re:UN-Justifiable Reasoning (Score 1) 322
I agree. History is fraught with examples of "benevolent" billionaire tycoons doing their best to exploit the features of an effectively laissez faire free market to ammass phenomenal amounts of wealth at the expense of all around them, thus creating market-destroying monopolies. If you don't believe me, look up the likes of J.P. Morgan and Standard Oil in American history. These folks led directly to the kind of anti-trust legislation that corporations have been trying to find a way around since the laws' inception.
Businesses don't exist to spread prosperity and freedom and wealth upon the upturned faces of the masses. They exist to make money. Never forget that.
Now I'm not saying that Business is Evil, or anything like that, just as a pit bul terrier is not evil when he's trying to rip your face off. They're both just doing what they naturally do. Society has figured out how to regulate pit bull terriers because they represent an immediate, clear and present danger when in the right circumstances (apologies to pit bull owners, but my pet hand grenade is safer). Corporations and businesses are sometimes faced with circumstances that trigger not-nice behavior as well; society creates rules to prevent them from metaphorically ripping faces off, accordingly.
But if you go and stick your hand in a pit bul's mouth and then kick him in the balls, then that's your stupid fault. So is letting businesses run around and have their way. If you're serious about enacting a strategy, on an individual level, to get business to act "properly", then vote with your dollars and don't buy things from nasty businesses (it's called a boycott; kind of an archaic thing, little practiced nowadays) and vote with your VOTES and don't elect (or re-elect) people who don't do what you want (it's called a representative democracy; kind of an archaic thing, little practiced nowadays).
Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you ever think that anyone is going to deliberately have your best interests in mind and act on them naturally! You have to make yourself heard, just as the special interests do now!
But, I guess, that's what this whole thing is about . . .
Businesses don't exist to spread prosperity and freedom and wealth upon the upturned faces of the masses. They exist to make money. Never forget that.
Now I'm not saying that Business is Evil, or anything like that, just as a pit bul terrier is not evil when he's trying to rip your face off. They're both just doing what they naturally do. Society has figured out how to regulate pit bull terriers because they represent an immediate, clear and present danger when in the right circumstances (apologies to pit bull owners, but my pet hand grenade is safer). Corporations and businesses are sometimes faced with circumstances that trigger not-nice behavior as well; society creates rules to prevent them from metaphorically ripping faces off, accordingly.
But if you go and stick your hand in a pit bul's mouth and then kick him in the balls, then that's your stupid fault. So is letting businesses run around and have their way. If you're serious about enacting a strategy, on an individual level, to get business to act "properly", then vote with your dollars and don't buy things from nasty businesses (it's called a boycott; kind of an archaic thing, little practiced nowadays) and vote with your VOTES and don't elect (or re-elect) people who don't do what you want (it's called a representative democracy; kind of an archaic thing, little practiced nowadays).
Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you ever think that anyone is going to deliberately have your best interests in mind and act on them naturally! You have to make yourself heard, just as the special interests do now!
But, I guess, that's what this whole thing is about . . .
