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marKO19989 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Exactly...I simply shake my head and laugh at the fact that people, especially "economy majors", think that Corporations work for the best interest of the masses. When they simply don't. They work for the themselves!
vaughntrapp (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
This is a "see the universe in a grain of sand" video.Those self serving people are myopically helping to cut their own society's throat.Corporate Amerika, not Al Quaida, has DESTROYED this country. Hope you all survive this 2nd corporat instigated Great Depression.
hpmc9 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
'Cohen' 'Lebowitz'hmmm, what do those names have in common
hpmc9 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
This week, on the "McLaughlin Group" John McLaughlin gave "The Big Lie" award for 2008, to the idea that "Education" is the answer to everything, mentioning tha Computer Science and Engineering have been destroyed (becuase of crap like this). He is of course, absolutly right
marKO19989 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
More specifically the men BEHIND the corporations, who have ties in many different corners of society, not just front men CEO's...
marKO19989 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
The constant strive for competition and self-interest is what drives companies to take any measures to stay on top. They influence politics, education, and the mass media.If you cannot see this, then you are blind and I see no point arguing with you.This is systematic control of hegemonic rule by corporations.
marKO19989 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
That is a simplistic and textbook definition of free trade. Just like most systems, it is not so pretty in real life.The problem is that financiers or corporate "hitmen" go into a nation and offer it money in exchange for future services. They offer so much money that it can never be paid back by poor third world countries. This money however, rarely goes to the people of said nation, it ends up returning to the same corporations which plant themselves there.Corporatism is a natural result.
4celgene (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Free trade really is "free" because it allows individuals to exercise their right to make voluntary transactions with whomever they please ,whether they happen to live in the same country or not.
4celgene (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
Alright let's see if you can follow this. When producers are free to operate in the country where they can produce at minimal cost, less resources are used to produce a given amount of goods or services. That is the definition wealth creation. Yes, the profits of successful companies are part of this wealth. Those profits are what motivate them to become more productive. But much of the wealth goes toward increasing the real income of consumers because prices are reduced.
marKO19989 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)
By whom pray tell are my views not considered "plausible"? Could it be by your own money pushing "economists" who have grown up on the principles given them by their own idiotic forefathers. "Trade increases total wealth."That depends on what you go by, if you mean that it increases the total wealth of Wal-Mart, then fine, if you mean that it increases the total wealth of both countries, pfft. The wealth accrued by countries with power and large companies DWARFS their smaller "competitors". |
