Because of the nature of business, surely, seeing larger companies taking over smaller ones? This is why monopolies and mergers commissions exist in order to provide safeguards.Quote:
Originally Posted by chuck34
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Because of the nature of business, surely, seeing larger companies taking over smaller ones? This is why monopolies and mergers commissions exist in order to provide safeguards.Quote:
Originally Posted by chuck34
The Evidence in Detail | The Equality TrustQuote:
Originally Posted by chuck34
Cut-throat capitalism doesn't work either. Those who can't find a work that gives them and their families decent living, will turn to crime and the few rich have to protect themselves with walls and private armies. Only some hybrid system between communism and capitalism has a chance to work.Quote:
Originally Posted by chuck34
I believe that capitalism with a genuine social conscience, as opposed to the impression of one, can be a genuine force for good. But let's not think that it has a monopoly on this.
But why would that happen? Say there is a monopoly on, oh I don't know, air travel. If there is one sole airline and I feel that they are ripping people off by charging too much, what stops me from buying a plane and undercutting their price and or improving upon their service? Or heck what stops me from building a high speed rail line that can get there faster and cheaper?Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
True free markets encourage competition, they don't stifle it. Communism, by definition, enshrines state run monopolies. Is that good?
Ohhhh fun with statistics. Do I really need to take the time to refute all those? I will if you want me to.Quote:
Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1
Infant mortality reporting issues:Quote:
Originally Posted by chuck34
Factors Contributing to the Infant Mortality Ranking of the United States
Mental illness reporting issues:Quote:
Problems of definition and measurement, however, hamper cross-national comparisons of health statistics. Alternative measures of infant mortality may provide better information but cannot completely compensate for differences among countries in the overall rates of reporting of adverse pregnancy outcomes. For example, very premature births are more likely to be included in birth and mortality statistics in the United States than in several other industrialized countries that have lower infant mortality rates.
How Depressed Is Your Country? - Forbes.com
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...the findings are likely related in part to Americans' willingness to talk about their depression.
I'll give you this one because people in the US probably has more disposable income than many other countries (even our poor). So we literally have more money to dispose of on drugs. I guess more money is bad then. :rolleyes:
Anyway now I'm bored. Those are some pretty charts though I'll give them that. I did laugh pretty hard though when they got to the "Social Mobility" one though. I thought this was a study of "equal countries"? If they're equal how do you go from poor to rich or vice versa? Funny that.
And to think you accuse others of having a romanticised view of communism... Your perspective on the free market is, judging by these remarks, no better.Quote:
Originally Posted by chuck34
How so? Honest question. Where is my logic flawed? In a truly free market system, why wouldn't a competing business spring up to compete with an "evil monopoly"? What barrier is there stopping them? There sure as heck is a motive, profit, and that is a strong motivator.Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
The real world is on my side of this argument. Why is there a Delta, a United, American, etc? Why is there a FexEx and a DHL, UPS? Why is there a Wendy's and a McDonalds? Are you suggesting that only government intervention is providing competition? That without the government somehow McDonalds would buy up Wendy's, Burger King, Jack in the Box and all the rest and be some sort of monopoly?
Competition by definition has losers. The more someone wins, the more others lose. And the more someone wins, the easier it gets for him to win some more. That leads inevitably to a situation when there are far more losers than winners. Unless there are rules and some kind of handicap system.Quote:
Originally Posted by chuck34
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Now I been lookin' for a job but it's hard to find
Down here it's just winners and losers and don't get caught on the wrong side of that line
Well I'm tired of comin' out on the losin' end
So honey last night I met this guy and I'm gonna do a little favor for him
Well I guess everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Put your makeup on fix your hair up pretty and meet me tonight in Atlantic City