RE: The Invisible Hand of the Market....Again
February 18, 2014 at 5:12 am
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2014 at 5:13 am by Tiberius.)
TaraJo Wrote:Corporations can't hire assissins to kill individuals. Instead, they can polute the water and air and our food, killing millions. Why are we so well protected from the former but not the latter?We're not well protected from the latter because the corporations are in bed with the government.
I've said it before, we agree on this point. If corporations kill people, they should pay the price, in both fines and jail time for the people in those corporations who were ultimately responsible.
A free market wouldn't prevent that. The current market does. If the government were required by law not to interfere with the market, and vice versa, then they have more reason to pursue lawsuits and criminal charges against companies that break laws.