Comment The Ultimate Economic Irony (Score 1) 182
"Products without central hosts and distribution are not new in business. They're old in business. The centralized, one-corporation economy is what's new. In the past, there was competition. Everything was not run by central planners of big corporations."
--So, the fate of unchecked Capitalism may very well be Communism? ;}
Single monopolies and oligarcies come to dominate each major industry through the lack of wise controls on capitalism; along the way, the growing corporation shifts its mindset from business to institutional preservation and propaganda; they come to own the governmental representatives, "regulatory" agencies and media outlets; then goods and services become centrally planned and distributed by corporate power through manipulatable political parties and media. How far is the distance, really, from monopolistic control of government and media to government central planning and distribution?
How funny that Ronald Reagan's straw-man "Evil Empire" could be the very end-point of his cherished "laissez-faire" free market...
The internet, the free software movement, and the freedom of information issue are emergent de-centralizing checks on the crystalization of monopolistic power. We're focusing now on the freedom of information in music and the arts industry because that's an arena where the legal battles are getting press (hmm--corporate owned media interested in information ownership...). But could B2B solutions save the small family farmer as well as internet distribution can save the small alternative rock band?
--So, the fate of unchecked Capitalism may very well be Communism?
Single monopolies and oligarcies come to dominate each major industry through the lack of wise controls on capitalism; along the way, the growing corporation shifts its mindset from business to institutional preservation and propaganda; they come to own the governmental representatives, "regulatory" agencies and media outlets; then goods and services become centrally planned and distributed by corporate power through manipulatable political parties and media. How far is the distance, really, from monopolistic control of government and media to government central planning and distribution?
How funny that Ronald Reagan's straw-man "Evil Empire" could be the very end-point of his cherished "laissez-faire" free market...
The internet, the free software movement, and the freedom of information issue are emergent de-centralizing checks on the crystalization of monopolistic power. We're focusing now on the freedom of information in music and the arts industry because that's an arena where the legal battles are getting press (hmm--corporate owned media interested in information ownership...). But could B2B solutions save the small family farmer as well as internet distribution can save the small alternative rock band?
