(March 17, 2016 at 1:44 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
I have certainly worked for very wonderful businesses who treated me well. But the bigger something becomes, the harder it can get to keep it on a leash.
That's why I always make a distinction between a free market and capitalism. Capitalism is an ideology like every other. It's the religion of greed, if you so wish. A free market is business competing. Capitalism is big business buying out the competition, to the detriment of the customers and the employees.
What we face now isn't a free market anymore, since there's hardly any competition going on in certain fields. It's worst when different media outlets are owned by one big corporation, since it's a direct attack on the freedom of press. These last two or three decades we've moved rapidly towards corporacy. And the ones running the show get away with almost everything scots free as 2008 has shown in a very painful manner.