(July 8, 2014 at 2:15 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Hardly, corporations are generally the entrenched players preventing you from getting any of those things from anyone else. Being established has advantages, specifically in context to others wishing to offer the same services at a lower price. I'll just buy you out, and bring the price of your (former) products back in line with my own. Win win, I annihilated you, protected my position, and made a profit in the process. If you refuse to sell, at some point, you'd be replaced...because you aren't fulfilling the obligations placed upon you by incorporation (or even more stringently, by public investment within your corporation).
It's a two way street. Neither the heavy hand of government, nor the invisible hand of the market appear to have your interests (or our interests) in mind. It certainly makes no sense to defend a system that has demonstrably fucked all but those in control of that system.
I'm sure Adam Smith didn't intend the free market to result in such stupidity.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
