a corporation will bust your kneecaps if you demand higher wages, and set fire to smaller competitors. and you have no recourse. this is american history
meanwhile, you can actually elect government officials, insist they pass anticorruption laws, and make them accountable to you. there is of course a brain dead cynicism that corruption is insurmountable, but the nordic countries and canada control corruption better than us. why can't we? and we can. and we shall
we just passed net neutrality, we're legalizing gay marriage and marijuana. ten years ago people would laugh at me that this was impossible with the same brain dead cynicism. we will defeat citizens united and other form of government corruption and make it more accountable
buried in your hyperbole is a real point though: some people blindly hate government and irrationally trust corporations. other people blindly hate corporations and and irrationally trust government
why can't someone be both?
me: i don't trust government. i also don't trust corporations
is such a person possible in your world?
if i express my distrust of corporations, in your mind that means i automatically love government? why?
it's kind of like those arguments about iran and nukes: if you don't want iran to have nukes, you must love israel and the usa. no. how about i just don't trust a theorcracy with nukes, AND i dislike american and israeli policy? why i can't i do both?
why is there this irrational tribalism at work in the world where expressing an opinion against something automatically means i am for something else, as only determined by blind prejudice?
it's possible to think about the problems in the world without categorizing people according to the one dimensional antagonistic stereotypes in your head
ah the perennial "big business corrupts government so government is the evil one"
so if thieves rob your bank by blowing the door off, you scream and yell and kick at the security guards (government), leave the broken door unrepaired (regulatory capture), and let thew thieves (big business) get away without a single iota of criticism?
CORRUPTION is the problem, not government. if you attack and weaken government, the assholes corrupting it simply rape you with less interference and hassle of corrupting someone in government to do so
you want to fix your government. you want to fight corruption
if you want to fight government, and not criticize the corruptors, you're what is called a "useful fool" to plutocrats
there is no free market fairy fix here. fair regulations that keep an even playing field in fact is the only way you ever get a free market in the first place
Oh, please do help me with more "basic education": explain how these strategies can possibly be stable in a free market.
okay. the large player(s) crushes the small player(s), drives them out of business, then abuse the consumer with higher prices, because the consumers have no other option
rather than depend upon the market to satisfy the costs of R&D, just put a bounty on drug discovery. it's cheaper for society
especially in the usa, where a new life saving drug can cost thousands a month. and even if you have insurance, that cost is being passed onto the rest of us. such that government paying a single huge bounty (to the actual discoverer and their university research dept, rather than some suit), paid for via taxes, would actually be cheaper for each of us
but there's always these hordes of morons who see taxes and government services as the ultimate evil. these fools seem to have no problem paying way more for lower quality, like american healthcare. just because it's not from the government? obviously single payer universal healthcare, without rent seeking insurance parasites, is far superior to the joke system in the USA. the ACA is a baby step in the right direction, we need to go a lot further
compare the usa to our social and economic peers in terms of quality of healthcare, and cost of healthcare, and we are getting a worse product for 10-100x the cost. all because "HURRR DURRR GUBMINT EVIL"
The reason markets do not function well with broadband is its a near natural monopoly, or a natural duopoly rather. Because of the huge investments needed in the infrastructure its only possible for a few companies to be involved. So, the effect of the market is weak to non-existant, thats why regulation of these kinds of things can be beneficial.
THANK YOU
unfortunately, it is dumbfounding the wall of prideful ignorance this simple obvious point encounters on the hordes of uneducated and stupid out there
and don't even get me started on the horrible propaganda and misinformation on the topic of natural monopolies
it's somewhat frightening how hoodwinked and brainwashed people can be
there are countries in this world, canada, the nordic countries, that actually do a good job at minimizing corruption. the usa has legalized corruption: buying congresscritters via funding elections, revolving door employment with regulators, etc. THAT is the problem
the absurdity, the insane stupidity, is thinking less regulations and less government will lead to more fairness. because magic. all that less government and less regulations mean is the oligarchs currently raping you with corrupt regulations will now happily rape you more directly with less people to corrupt in government. if you don't realize this you are a complete moron on this topic, on the iintellectual order of creationists and antivaxxers: " less government leads to more fairness in the market because magic"
and apologies if i sounded like i was ranting at you. i was using your your comment as a launching point for me to rant at other fools, free market fundamentalists, not hurl abuse at you
Regulatory capture is a form of corruption. What you want is regulation without corruption.
With no regulations, worse abuses than regulation capture occurs: domination by oligarchy who abuse consumers and smaller players. With no recourse. Because there's no regulations. And there's no magic free market fairy who fixes things another way.
It's important to note this because there persists this economically ignorant nonsense that regulations cause problems. No, corruption causes problems. Regulations are the only way you get any fairness.
We need to fight *corruption* not *government* on the issue of regulation. I do not love government, but when it comes to markets, government regulation is the only thing that keeps the playing field fair so the magic of capitalism (efficiency via competition) can work.vMeanwhile, an unregulated marketplace left to itself becomes abusive.
There unfortunately persists this quasireligious faith based economic illiteracy in the USA, on the same intellectual level as creationism and antivaxxers, that unregulated marketplaces are magically free and fair because magic.
1. unregulated marketplaces: hell
2. corrupt government (regulatory capture, rent seeking parasites, oligarchy): hell
3. truly fair government regulation: the only way capitalism can work. without a fair playing field with referees, there is no fair game of capitalism. players cheat
the banks can't cut out the ccs, the ccs will punish them
so the best power play is OS/ phone manufacturer and the phone companies cutting out the banks AND the ccs
i get it
but you know the ccs are working furiously with dirty tricks right now like purchased legislation to protect their revenue streams, i mean EHEM, "protect the consumer"
so why can't banks team up with verizon/ att/ sprint/ etc (and do an end run around google/ apple/ samsung/ etc. plus mastercard/ visa/ etc.) and just give us phone = bankcard thataways?
what am i missing?
do i get my $30 million bonus now?
the only reason we don't have phone = bankcard technology is this power game pissing contest between all of the players here, correct?
1. Cohen probably doesn't have that much, and it will probably cost more to do what you suggest than anything you can recover
3. by acting with such impunity, you can get in trouble with the law. never mind blackmail by shady thugs. once you gain the attention of certain low like characters, and you demonstrate to them a brutality and mendacity they recognize in themselves, they get their hooks into you, and they don't let go
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you're not an intelligent person. you should stop talking about what you can't understand
the problem is corruption. which is not our fault
any other great insights genius?
a corporation will bust your kneecaps if you demand higher wages, and set fire to smaller competitors. and you have no recourse. this is american history
meanwhile, you can actually elect government officials, insist they pass anticorruption laws, and make them accountable to you. there is of course a brain dead cynicism that corruption is insurmountable, but the nordic countries and canada control corruption better than us. why can't we? and we can. and we shall
we just passed net neutrality, we're legalizing gay marriage and marijuana. ten years ago people would laugh at me that this was impossible with the same brain dead cynicism. we will defeat citizens united and other form of government corruption and make it more accountable
buried in your hyperbole is a real point though: some people blindly hate government and irrationally trust corporations. other people blindly hate corporations and and irrationally trust government
why can't someone be both?
me: i don't trust government. i also don't trust corporations
is such a person possible in your world?
if i express my distrust of corporations, in your mind that means i automatically love government? why?
it's kind of like those arguments about iran and nukes: if you don't want iran to have nukes, you must love israel and the usa. no. how about i just don't trust a theorcracy with nukes, AND i dislike american and israeli policy? why i can't i do both?
why is there this irrational tribalism at work in the world where expressing an opinion against something automatically means i am for something else, as only determined by blind prejudice?
it's possible to think about the problems in the world without categorizing people according to the one dimensional antagonistic stereotypes in your head
ah the perennial "big business corrupts government so government is the evil one"
so if thieves rob your bank by blowing the door off, you scream and yell and kick at the security guards (government), leave the broken door unrepaired (regulatory capture), and let thew thieves (big business) get away without a single iota of criticism?
CORRUPTION is the problem, not government. if you attack and weaken government, the assholes corrupting it simply rape you with less interference and hassle of corrupting someone in government to do so
you want to fix your government. you want to fight corruption
if you want to fight government, and not criticize the corruptors, you're what is called a "useful fool" to plutocrats
there is no free market fairy fix here. fair regulations that keep an even playing field in fact is the only way you ever get a free market in the first place
because the larger player will just do it again?
are you at your wits end of prideful ignorance, or just really that amazingly low iq?
okay. the large player(s) crushes the small player(s), drives them out of business, then abuse the consumer with higher prices, because the consumers have no other option
rather than depend upon the market to satisfy the costs of R&D, just put a bounty on drug discovery. it's cheaper for society
especially in the usa, where a new life saving drug can cost thousands a month. and even if you have insurance, that cost is being passed onto the rest of us. such that government paying a single huge bounty (to the actual discoverer and their university research dept, rather than some suit), paid for via taxes, would actually be cheaper for each of us
but there's always these hordes of morons who see taxes and government services as the ultimate evil. these fools seem to have no problem paying way more for lower quality, like american healthcare. just because it's not from the government? obviously single payer universal healthcare, without rent seeking insurance parasites, is far superior to the joke system in the USA. the ACA is a baby step in the right direction, we need to go a lot further
compare the usa to our social and economic peers in terms of quality of healthcare, and cost of healthcare, and we are getting a worse product for 10-100x the cost. all because "HURRR DURRR GUBMINT EVIL"
The reason markets do not function well with broadband is its a near natural monopoly, or a natural duopoly rather. Because of the huge investments needed in the infrastructure its only possible for a few companies to be involved. So, the effect of the market is weak to non-existant, thats why regulation of these kinds of things can be beneficial.
THANK YOU
unfortunately, it is dumbfounding the wall of prideful ignorance this simple obvious point encounters on the hordes of uneducated and stupid out there
and don't even get me started on the horrible propaganda and misinformation on the topic of natural monopolies
it's somewhat frightening how hoodwinked and brainwashed people can be
give her the list
tell her anytime she thinks of you, to read one of those books/ watch one of those movies
you can bond with her from the beyond
amen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
any other basic education in this subject matter i can help you with today?
we use legalized bribery against itself, corruption jujitsu:
http://www.wolf-pac.com/
we have laws to enforce a fair playing field
you think if we didn't have laws and didn't enforce them things would be more fair and free?
you really believe that?
there are countries in this world, canada, the nordic countries, that actually do a good job at minimizing corruption. the usa has legalized corruption: buying congresscritters via funding elections, revolving door employment with regulators, etc. THAT is the problem
the absurdity, the insane stupidity, is thinking less regulations and less government will lead to more fairness. because magic. all that less government and less regulations mean is the oligarchs currently raping you with corrupt regulations will now happily rape you more directly with less people to corrupt in government. if you don't realize this you are a complete moron on this topic, on the iintellectual order of creationists and antivaxxers: " less government leads to more fairness in the market because magic"
thank you, well said
and apologies if i sounded like i was ranting at you. i was using your your comment as a launching point for me to rant at other fools, free market fundamentalists, not hurl abuse at you
Regulatory capture is a form of corruption. What you want is regulation without corruption.
With no regulations, worse abuses than regulation capture occurs: domination by oligarchy who abuse consumers and smaller players. With no recourse. Because there's no regulations. And there's no magic free market fairy who fixes things another way.
It's important to note this because there persists this economically ignorant nonsense that regulations cause problems. No, corruption causes problems. Regulations are the only way you get any fairness.
We need to fight *corruption* not *government* on the issue of regulation. I do not love government, but when it comes to markets, government regulation is the only thing that keeps the playing field fair so the magic of capitalism (efficiency via competition) can work.vMeanwhile, an unregulated marketplace left to itself becomes abusive.
There unfortunately persists this quasireligious faith based economic illiteracy in the USA, on the same intellectual level as creationism and antivaxxers, that unregulated marketplaces are magically free and fair because magic.
1. unregulated marketplaces: hell
2. corrupt government (regulatory capture, rent seeking parasites, oligarchy): hell
3. truly fair government regulation: the only way capitalism can work. without a fair playing field with referees, there is no fair game of capitalism. players cheat
Yes.
censorship?
the heroin crack meth of money in politics is not defeated by voting for the fourth party candidate wackjob
the laws need to be changed like this:
http://www.wolf-pac.com/
using money to defeat money. corruption jujitsu
you're correct, they want an alternative stream
but it's not altruistic, they just want to set up their own competing ~1% ~2% steal
thank you. well explained
the banks can't cut out the ccs, the ccs will punish them
so the best power play is OS/ phone manufacturer and the phone companies cutting out the banks AND the ccs
i get it
but you know the ccs are working furiously with dirty tricks right now like purchased legislation to protect their revenue streams, i mean EHEM, "protect the consumer"
american banks are finally waking the fuck up from all of the easy expensive hacks and finally giving americans european style smart chip cards:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/1014121...
the chips in smart cards are the same thing as phone SIM cards:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
so why can't banks team up with verizon/ att/ sprint/ etc (and do an end run around google/ apple/ samsung/ etc. plus mastercard/ visa/ etc.) and just give us phone = bankcard thataways?
what am i missing?
do i get my $30 million bonus now?
the only reason we don't have phone = bankcard technology is this power game pissing contest between all of the players here, correct?
someone please explain to me what i am missing
there are plenty of douchebags in this world with a self-declared and delusional, entitled sense of impunity
1. Cohen probably doesn't have that much, and it will probably cost more to do what you suggest than anything you can recover
3. by acting with such impunity, you can get in trouble with the law. never mind blackmail by shady thugs. once you gain the attention of certain low like characters, and you demonstrate to them a brutality and mendacity they recognize in themselves, they get their hooks into you, and they don't let go
better to stay clean
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