- Joined
- Apr 12, 2014
- Messages
- 6,982
- Reaction score
- 6,963
- Points
- 113
Well this pretty much sums up the cult of statism.
Venezuelans are eating zoo animals...
- Thread starter IndySteel
- Start date
Well this pretty much sums up the cult of statism.
- Joined
- Nov 4, 2014
- Messages
- 14,742
- Reaction score
- 17,185
- Points
- 113
And/or works for the government and directly benefits directly off the backs of others.
And/or is a trustfundian who has no idea what its like to work for a living...
And/or is a professional student aka college professor who has no idea what life is like outside of the college arena..
Last edited:
Yes, and the American Civil War ended in 1865 and along with it slavery. Yeah...we have NO lingering effects from that..........
liberal elitism in a nutshell
Hey Litos, are you ok? Would appreciate your perspective on this.
- Joined
- Nov 4, 2014
- Messages
- 14,742
- Reaction score
- 17,185
- Points
- 113
I wonder what Africans who are continually battling warlords, starvation, ebola, etc. feel about living in that country. If given a choice I wonder if they would decide to move to this awful place.
I've often wondered where in the world people of color are given more freedom and opportunities than here.
And you're one without even having the ability to think. Good for you champ!
Ah, the old "I know you are but **** am I" retort. Brilliant!
- Joined
- Nov 4, 2014
- Messages
- 14,742
- Reaction score
- 17,185
- Points
- 113
We have neighbors down the street who now own about 10 convenience stores in this area and they are first generation from India. You never see them because they are ALWAYS working but they do not look like they are having any problems with this country. Nice folks too.
Yeah slavery was a good thing, in the long run...........
- Joined
- Nov 4, 2014
- Messages
- 14,742
- Reaction score
- 17,185
- Points
- 113
So is America.
If more immigrants are good for the economy, why is every place that immigrants come from a Third World shithole?
- Joined
- Nov 4, 2014
- Messages
- 14,742
- Reaction score
- 17,185
- Points
- 113
Corporatocracy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy
Corporatocracy is a recent term used to refer to an economic and political system controlled by corporations or corporate interests.[1] It is most often used today as a term to describe the current economic situation in a particular country, especially the United States.[2][3] This is different from corporatism, which is the organisation of society into groups with common interests. Corporatocracy as a term is often used by observers across the political spectrum.[2][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
Economist Jeffrey Sachs described the United States as a corporatocracy in The Price of Civilization (2011).[16] He suggested that it arose from four trends: weak national parties and strong political representation of individual districts, the large U.S. military establishment after World War II, big corporate money financing election campaigns, and globalization tilting the balance away from workers.[16]
This collective is what author C Wright Mills in 1956 called the 'power elite', wealthy individuals who hold prominent positions in corporatocracies. They control the process of determining a society's economic and political policies.[17]
The concept has been used in explanations of bank bailouts, excessive pay for CEOs, as well as complaints such as the exploitation of national treasuries, people, and natural resources.[18] It has been used by critics of globalization,[19] sometimes in conjunction with criticism of the World Bank[20] or unfair lending practices,[18] as well as criticism of "free trade agreements".[19]
Edmund Phelps published an analysis in 2010 theorizing that the cause of income inequality is not free market capitalism, but instead is the result of the rise of corporatization.[21] Corporatization, in his view, is the antithesis of free market capitalism. It is characterized by semi-monopolistic organizations and banks, big employer confederations, often acting with complicit state institutions in ways that discourage (or block) the natural workings of a free economy. The primary effects of corporatization are the consolidation of economic power and wealth with end results being the attrition of entrepreneurial and free market dynamism.
His follow-up book, Mass Flourishing, further defines corporatization by the following attributes: power-sharing between government and large corporations (exemplified in the U.S. by widening government power in areas such as financial services, healthcare, and energy through regulation), an expansion of corporate lobbying and campaign support in exchange for government reciprocity, escalation in the growth and influence of financial and banking sectors, increased consolidation of the corporate landscape through merger and acquisition (with ensuing increases in corporate executive compensation), increased potential for corporate/government corruption and malfeasance, and a lack of entrepreneurial and small business development leading to lethargic and stagnant economic conditions.
-------------------
Maybe we can agree that we need to keep the government and corporations separated, and that bringing back a true free market would lower costs, increase efficiency and improve the product quality.
I have an employee in Mexico who works in the steel mills, checking inventory of our chemicals and testing for the proper concentration in solution. I pay him $12,000 / year. For the hours he puts in that equates to $4.44 / hour. And it's decent money for blue collar labor there. Here, he would be required to join the Steelworkers Union and pull in $75,000 / year.
Feel free to answer the question whenever you get around to it.
- Joined
- Nov 4, 2014
- Messages
- 14,742
- Reaction score
- 17,185
- Points
- 113
You are probably right. Maybe their parents or grandparents had relations with the British colonialists.
- Joined
- Apr 8, 2014
- Messages
- 6,301
- Reaction score
- 4,060
- Points
- 113
I have previous experience doing inventory control at a hospital warehouse. I'll take the $75k job if you have an opening.
- Joined
- Apr 13, 2014
- Messages
- 5,307
- Reaction score
- 4,795
- Points
- 113
I'm honestly about ready to turn Elfie off. He's going off the deep end in many a thread these days.
That said, I kind of agree with the corporatocracy idea. I think government (and specifically Republicans) have not been doing enough to create and protect true free market ideals. They have protected the well-being of the super-corporations it seems to me above protecting the ideals of simple business creation and fair practice and anti-monopoly checks/balances.
I'm not sure which side of the aisle anymore sticks up for the protection, creation and ability to start small business and its ability to compete fairly against the megalopolis/global industrial elites. I don't think it's the Republicans or the Democrats.
That said, I kind of agree with the corporatocracy idea. I think government (and specifically Republicans) have not been doing enough to create and protect true free market ideals. They have protected the well-being of the super-corporations it seems to me above protecting the ideals of simple business creation and fair practice and anti-monopoly checks/balances.
I'm not sure which side of the aisle anymore sticks up for the protection, creation and ability to start small business and its ability to compete fairly against the megalopolis/global industrial elites. I don't think it's the Republicans or the Democrats.
I think going forward we just need to hijack any of his useless threads.
Feeding the troll just energizes him.
Feeding the troll just energizes him.
- Joined
- Apr 8, 2014
- Messages
- 9,394
- Reaction score
- 6,217
- Points
- 113
So, you are underpaying this poor guy by $63,000?
Similar threads
