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It's anti-communism literature.
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What we've got here is.... failure, to communicate.... some men you just can't reach...
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ive dabbled in drugs, promiscuity including homoeroticism, severe overuse of splenda and libertarianism and the only one i regret is libertarianism
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Well that certainly says something about you now doesn't it
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In fact, if an industry is completely unregulated, then special interests have no way to really use the power of government to their advantage. Regulatory capture is real and is one of the biggest dangers we face. When you give the government the power to regulate an industry, what you're really doing is allowing the biggest players in that industry the power to destroy their competition with regulation. Why do you think the banking industry is actually become more consolidated, with fewer small banks, since the most recent round of disaster/regulation? This is something you would have understood if you had actually read Atlas Shrugged.
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Let's talk about corporate mergers and aquisitions, monopolies. This "free market" that you claim to want can't possibly exist in a world where eight major corporations have bought everything else that can be produced or serviced, and are slowly buying each other in a process that will eventually conglomerate them into one enormous corporation that owns everything in the country. That's the opposite of a free market. And it's government regulation that can and should stand in the way of that.
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The recent film adaptations parts I and II are a snooze fest. The production value is decent for the budget but the acting is so flat.
I have to disagree with Lune we don't have anything approaching a free market. We have a central bank basically with the federal reserve which is one of the planks of communism. I would say it is actually closer to a fascist economic system or corporatism similar to Mussolini and his parties ideas though where the govt and big business are working together to screw everyone. Destroying labor and propping up big business. The gov and the big players are all the same people anyways at this point. Sort of a fascism 2.0 where they still pretend to uphold private property and "capitalism" but remove autonomy at every turn. | ||
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As for your monopoly fantasy... Did you ever make it past the 8th grade in your understanding of markets? You do realize that monopolies are enabled by regulations far more often than they are prevented? Exactly how do you suppose a company would maintain a monopoly in a free market if they weren't providing the best service to their customers? | |||
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