Capitalism without competition is not capitalism

[boedicca]

You need government to eliminate competition.

If your opponent is doing much better than you are, you don't have to compete with them. Just buy them and then have them give the same crappy service your company does. The Public won't be the wiser.

And if you have government raise enough barriers, you never have to worry about new competitors.

Are you aware that the really big Corps write all the new laws? You honestly believe that you have a say in anything anymore? The Corp believes it needs something to make more money. They write a new law, they dump millions into Congress and Presidential Campaign Contributions or tell the Polititian that they are spending million is Dark Money on their behalf, offer jobs to the Congress Critters when they leave office, and then turn the 1000 page law over to the Congress Critters who introduce it to Congress without even reading the damned thing.

Big Corporations writing regulations is Not Capitalism. It's Corporate-Fascism.

Fascism is a political ideology.
Capitalism is a socioeconomic ideology.

Fascism can't exist without capitalism.

BTW, you are exploiting a monkey with your Av.

Photographer in bizarre selfie court battle reveals that being sued by a monkey has left him broke

 

[Tehon]

If your opponent is doing much better than you are, you don't have to compete with them. Just buy them and then have them give the same crappy service your company does. The Public won't be the wiser.

And if you have government raise enough barriers, you never have to worry about new competitors.

Are you aware that the really big Corps write all the new laws? You honestly believe that you have a say in anything anymore? The Corp believes it needs something to make more money. They write a new law, they dump millions into Congress and Presidential Campaign Contributions or tell the Polititian that they are spending million is Dark Money on their behalf, offer jobs to the Congress Critters when they leave office, and then turn the 1000 page law over to the Congress Critters who introduce it to Congress without even reading the damned thing.

Big Corporations writing regulations is Not Capitalism. It's Corporate-Fascism.

Fascism is a political ideology.
Capitalism is a socioeconomic ideology.

Fascism can't exist without capitalism.

BTW, you are exploiting a monkey with your Av.

Photographer in bizarre selfie court battle reveals that being sued by a monkey has left him broke

You are as ignorant of the term exploit as you are of the term capitalism.

 

[danielpalos]

or t

If your opponent is doing much better than you are, you don't have to compete with them. Just buy them and then have them give the same crappy service your company does. The Public won't be the wiser.

And if you have government raise enough barriers, you never have to worry about new competitors.

Are you aware that the really big Corps write all the new laws? You honestly believe that you have a say in anything anymore? The Corp believes it needs something to make more money. They write a new law, they dump millions into Congress and Presidential Campaign Contributions or tell the Polititian that they are spending million is Dark Money on their behalf, offer jobs to the Congress Critters when they leave office, and then turn the 1000 page law over to the Congress Critters who introduce it to Congress without even reading the damned thing.

Big Corporations writing regulations is Not Capitalism. It's Corporate-Fascism.

At some point two things are going to happen. Our taxes will need to go up to make up for the taxes corporations no longer pay. And they’ll have to cut into social security and Medicare.

Further widening the gap between the rich and poor.

And Americans voted for it. Amazing.

They’ll also somehow pin it on liberals. Here we can point to exactly how republican policies widen the gap between rich and poor and still they blame democrats for what’s going on. Americans are being controlled by a corporate media that appears liberal on social issues because republicans benefit from the wedge issues that divide us. God gays guns and racism drives poor people into the republicans arms.

or the 50% that dont pay taxs can get jobs and pay their fair share

raise the minimum wage to increase market participation.

 

[boedicca]

And if you have government raise enough barriers, you never have to worry about new competitors.

Are you aware that the really big Corps write all the new laws? You honestly believe that you have a say in anything anymore? The Corp believes it needs something to make more money. They write a new law, they dump millions into Congress and Presidential Campaign Contributions or tell the Polititian that they are spending million is Dark Money on their behalf, offer jobs to the Congress Critters when they leave office, and then turn the 1000 page law over to the Congress Critters who introduce it to Congress without even reading the damned thing.

Big Corporations writing regulations is Not Capitalism. It's Corporate-Fascism.

Fascism is a political ideology.
Capitalism is a socioeconomic ideology.

Fascism can't exist without capitalism.

BTW, you are exploiting a monkey with your Av.

Photographer in bizarre selfie court battle reveals that being sued by a monkey has left him broke

You are as ignorant of the term exploit as you are of the term capitalism.

Did you get the monkey's permission to use his selfie? I doubt it.

 

[Tehon]

Are you aware that the really big Corps write all the new laws? You honestly believe that you have a say in anything anymore? The Corp believes it needs something to make more money. They write a new law, they dump millions into Congress and Presidential Campaign Contributions or tell the Polititian that they are spending million is Dark Money on their behalf, offer jobs to the Congress Critters when they leave office, and then turn the 1000 page law over to the Congress Critters who introduce it to Congress without even reading the damned thing.

Big Corporations writing regulations is Not Capitalism. It's Corporate-Fascism.

Fascism is a political ideology.
Capitalism is a socioeconomic ideology.

Fascism can't exist without capitalism.

BTW, you are exploiting a monkey with your Av.

Photographer in bizarre selfie court battle reveals that being sued by a monkey has left him broke

You are as ignorant of the term exploit as you are of the term capitalism.

Did you get the monkey's permission to use his selfie? I doubt it.

It's called fair use.

 

[Daryl Hunt]

If your opponent is doing much better than you are, you don't have to compete with them. Just buy them and then have them give the same crappy service your company does. The Public won't be the wiser.

And if you have government raise enough barriers, you never have to worry about new competitors.

Are you aware that the really big Corps write all the new laws? You honestly believe that you have a say in anything anymore? The Corp believes it needs something to make more money. They write a new law, they dump millions into Congress and Presidential Campaign Contributions or tell the Polititian that they are spending million is Dark Money on their behalf, offer jobs to the Congress Critters when they leave office, and then turn the 1000 page law over to the Congress Critters who introduce it to Congress without even reading the damned thing.

Big Corporations writing regulations is Not Capitalism. It's Corporate-Fascism.

Fascism is a political ideology.
Capitalism is a socioeconomic ideology.

Fascism can't exist without capitalism.

Nonsense. Fascism is about political control. Capitalism is a free market concept. Anything politicians due to distort the operation of free markets is anti-capitalism.

Again, free market is a myth.

 

[boedicca]

Big Corporations writing regulations is Not Capitalism. It's Corporate-Fascism.

Fascism is a political ideology.
Capitalism is a socioeconomic ideology.

Fascism can't exist without capitalism.

BTW, you are exploiting a monkey with your Av.

Photographer in bizarre selfie court battle reveals that being sued by a monkey has left him broke

You are as ignorant of the term exploit as you are of the term capitalism.

Did you get the monkey's permission to use his selfie? I doubt it.

It's called fair use.

Not according to PETA.

 

[boedicca]

And if you have government raise enough barriers, you never have to worry about new competitors.

Are you aware that the really big Corps write all the new laws? You honestly believe that you have a say in anything anymore? The Corp believes it needs something to make more money. They write a new law, they dump millions into Congress and Presidential Campaign Contributions or tell the Polititian that they are spending million is Dark Money on their behalf, offer jobs to the Congress Critters when they leave office, and then turn the 1000 page law over to the Congress Critters who introduce it to Congress without even reading the damned thing.

Big Corporations writing regulations is Not Capitalism. It's Corporate-Fascism.

Fascism is a political ideology.
Capitalism is a socioeconomic ideology.

Fascism can't exist without capitalism.

Nonsense. Fascism is about political control. Capitalism is a free market concept. Anything politicians due to distort the operation of free markets is anti-capitalism.

Again, free market is a myth.

It's an ideal - and a much healthier one than the Collectivist Utopian one.

Decentralized, distributed power is far more beneficial than concentrated power.

 

[dblack]

Big Corporations writing regulations is Not Capitalism. It's Corporate-Fascism.

Fascism is a political ideology.
Capitalism is a socioeconomic ideology.

Fascism can't exist without capitalism.

BTW, you are exploiting a monkey with your Av.

Photographer in bizarre selfie court battle reveals that being sued by a monkey has left him broke

You are as ignorant of the term exploit as you are of the term capitalism.

Did you get the monkey's permission to use his selfie? I doubt it.

It's called fair use.

No way man. You're leeching of the backs of labor!

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

For all you self proclaimed Capitalists, there is something to think about.

Juniorocracy

Hereditary ownership is also incompatible with Capitalism. A builder must pass down control to the best man available, which is hardly ever his own son. Heiristocracy has the same effect on Capitalism as an athlete be given the right to pass down his position to his son would have on pro sports. Filial is not fiduciary; it is feudal.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

You need government to eliminate competition.

If your opponents are doing much better than you are, you don't have to compete with them. Just buy them and then have them give the same crappy service your company does. The Public won't be the wiser.

And if you have government raise enough barriers, you never have to worry about new competitors.

Corporations like the govt. to interfere or increase the cost of operating a business.

No, they only like it when the Government raises the barriers on the competitors so they can buy their competitors and then get the barriers removed.

BigOilOccupiedGovernment's Little Snots

Proof that the Trustfundie Treehuggers' restrictions on our lucrative forests are ordered by those who want us to quit using paper or wood and instead use plastic, which is a petroleum product.

 

[boedicca]

For all you self proclaimed Capitalists, there is something to think about.

Juniorocracy

Hereditary ownership is also incompatible with Capitalism. A builder must pass down control to the best man available, which is hardly ever his own son. Heiristocracy has the same effect on Capitalism as an athlete be given the right to pass down his position to his son would have on pro sports. Filial is not fiduciary; it is feudal.

B'loney. Property rights are a core tenant of Capitalism. If somebody owns something, it is up to him what to do with it when he dies.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

You need government to eliminate competition.

If your opponent is doing much better than you are, you don't have to compete with them. Just buy them and then have them give the same crappy service your company does. The Public won't be the wiser.

I can see you've never run a business.

Terminal Stage of Capitalism: "All for One, and That One All for Himself"

The employees make the business run. It's a team, not a one-man show.

 

[sealybobo]

or t

If your opponent is doing much better than you are, you don't have to compete with them. Just buy them and then have them give the same crappy service your company does. The Public won't be the wiser.

And if you have government raise enough barriers, you never have to worry about new competitors.

Are you aware that the really big Corps write all the new laws? You honestly believe that you have a say in anything anymore? The Corp believes it needs something to make more money. They write a new law, they dump millions into Congress and Presidential Campaign Contributions or tell the Polititian that they are spending million is Dark Money on their behalf, offer jobs to the Congress Critters when they leave office, and then turn the 1000 page law over to the Congress Critters who introduce it to Congress without even reading the damned thing.

Big Corporations writing regulations is Not Capitalism. It's Corporate-Fascism.

At some point two things are going to happen. Our taxes will need to go up to make up for the taxes corporations no longer pay. And they’ll have to cut into social security and Medicare.

Further widening the gap between the rich and poor.

And Americans voted for it. Amazing.

They’ll also somehow pin it on liberals. Here we can point to exactly how republican policies widen the gap between rich and poor and still they blame democrats for what’s going on. Americans are being controlled by a corporate media that appears liberal on social issues because republicans benefit from the wedge issues that divide us. God gays guns and racism drives poor people into the republicans arms.

or the 50% that dont pay taxs can get jobs and pay their fair share

The rich don’t just want the poor to pay their fair share. They want you to also. Oh you disagree with them now? You think you pay enough in taxes? Compared to the rich you don’t pay squat. So your taxes will go up too.

Do not argue later that this is unfair.

 

[sealybobo]

If your opponent is doing much better than you are, you don't have to compete with them. Just buy them and then have them give the same crappy service your company does. The Public won't be the wiser.

And if you have government raise enough barriers, you never have to worry about new competitors.

Are you aware that the really big Corps write all the new laws? You honestly believe that you have a say in anything anymore? The Corp believes it needs something to make more money. They write a new law, they dump millions into Congress and Presidential Campaign Contributions or tell the Polititian that they are spending million is Dark Money on their behalf, offer jobs to the Congress Critters when they leave office, and then turn the 1000 page law over to the Congress Critters who introduce it to Congress without even reading the damned thing.

Big Corporations writing regulations is Not Capitalism. It's Corporate-Fascism.

At some point two things are going to happen. Our taxes will need to go up to make up for the taxes corporations no longer pay. And they’ll have to cut into social security and Medicare.

Further widening the gap between the rich and poor.

And Americans voted for it. Amazing.

They’ll also somehow pin it on liberals. Here we can point to exactly how republican policies widen the gap between rich and poor and still they blame democrats for what’s going on. Americans are being controlled by a corporate media that appears liberal on social issues because republicans benefit from the wedge issues that divide us. God gays guns and racism drives poor people into the republicans arms.

Liberals are no longer Classical Liberals - they are Big Government Statist Progressives. Americans are being controlled by more than just Big Corporations. Our ruling "elite" cabal includes Big Banks, Big Media, Big Entertainment as well as the Big Permanent Bureaucracy+Bi-Fusion Status Quo Establishment in DC. They are all members of the Party which wants to enslave the rest of us so that the Party Hacks can live off of our "surplus" productivity (whatever is generated above and beyond the subsistence lifestyles they deem the rest of us should live in order to appease the Very Angry Global Climate Change Gawd.)

Stop thinking big banks and big media aren’t corporations too. They are

There will always be a government and bureaucracy.

It’s the corporations who call it big government. What they want is for it to be powerless to stop their business decisions even ones that are harmful like not covering people with pre existing conditions

 

[Daryl Hunt]

Are you aware that the really big Corps write all the new laws? You honestly believe that you have a say in anything anymore? The Corp believes it needs something to make more money. They write a new law, they dump millions into Congress and Presidential Campaign Contributions or tell the Polititian that they are spending million is Dark Money on their behalf, offer jobs to the Congress Critters when they leave office, and then turn the 1000 page law over to the Congress Critters who introduce it to Congress without even reading the damned thing.

Big Corporations writing regulations is Not Capitalism. It's Corporate-Fascism.

Fascism is a political ideology.
Capitalism is a socioeconomic ideology.

Fascism can't exist without capitalism.

Nonsense. Fascism is about political control. Capitalism is a free market concept. Anything politicians due to distort the operation of free markets is anti-capitalism.

Again, free market is a myth.

It's an ideal - and a much healthier one than the Collectivist Utopian one.

Decentralized, distributed power is far more beneficial than concentrated power.

The only way to have free market is for everyone to play fair. It just ain't going to happen. Reality means that there is going to be many that are going to find ways to screw everyone else. This is why Free Market is a myth. But Fair Market is where regulation comes into play to even out the playing field whether it's done by a local, state, federal or international tariff. And that is a form of Socialism. For without a bit of Socialism, capitalism will run itself completely into the ground sooner or later and end up in chaos.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

The video in the OP is one giant Post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. The driver isn't the relaxing of laws related to mergers and acquisitions. It is because of IRA's, 401K's have added immense pressure on publicly traded companies to force growth by any means possible.

I’ve heard when republicans lowered taxes on the rich it took away the way we regulated corporate greed. We taxed anyone’s income above a certain amount so much they didn’t bother. So they invested all that money back into the business. Gave employees raises and insurance.

So today CEOs pay themselves like baseball players. They and all their generals get all the money. The shareholders get some and they don’t complain because the coward of directors of your company is a bunch of CEOs of other companies. They are doing it too.

CEO pay is largely stock related. We saw companies during earnngs seasons recently see their stocks drop after they beat expectations simply because it was done on less revenue. Amazon shares aren't $1600+ a share because they pay dividends.

The way I understand it is that when taxes were lowered on top earners, it caused greed.

And CEOs stopped worrying about the long term. They only worry about the next 5 years so they can make a fortune. Employees don’t get a cut.

Union employees would have got profit sharing. Today the ceo gets it all.

In fact, when Henry Ford raised his workers pay to 5 bucks a day and allowed them to buy the Model T on payments, the other Leaders all called him a Traitor to his Class. .

Because of Birth-Class Supremacy, We've Had Decade After Decadent Decade and Generation After Degenerate Generation


Since we are all programmed to ignore the controlling effect of birth privileges, the truth must be that class is hereditary. Henry Ford was born to a farm family, so he couldn't have been a traitor to the stagnant and firmly fixed class he had reached on his own. His incompetent son, Edsel, and his bullying clown grandson, Henry II, were of that class. That's why Ford has been going downhill ever since the mechanically inclined farmboy stopped running it.

In another misdefinition protecting HeirHeads, Kareem Abdul Jabbar was identified as "part of basketball's aristocracy, which is why we should listen to him." Only his son and grandson could be considered aristocratic, and nobody should expect them to have anything significant to say about the NBA.

 

[Tehon]

Fascism is a political ideology.
Capitalism is a socioeconomic ideology.

Fascism can't exist without capitalism.

BTW, you are exploiting a monkey with your Av.

Photographer in bizarre selfie court battle reveals that being sued by a monkey has left him broke

You are as ignorant of the term exploit as you are of the term capitalism.

Did you get the monkey's permission to use his selfie? I doubt it.

It's called fair use.

Not according to PETA.

According to the court.

 

[progressive hunter]

or t

And if you have government raise enough barriers, you never have to worry about new competitors.

Are you aware that the really big Corps write all the new laws? You honestly believe that you have a say in anything anymore? The Corp believes it needs something to make more money. They write a new law, they dump millions into Congress and Presidential Campaign Contributions or tell the Polititian that they are spending million is Dark Money on their behalf, offer jobs to the Congress Critters when they leave office, and then turn the 1000 page law over to the Congress Critters who introduce it to Congress without even reading the damned thing.

Big Corporations writing regulations is Not Capitalism. It's Corporate-Fascism.

At some point two things are going to happen. Our taxes will need to go up to make up for the taxes corporations no longer pay. And they’ll have to cut into social security and Medicare.

Further widening the gap between the rich and poor.

And Americans voted for it. Amazing.

They’ll also somehow pin it on liberals. Here we can point to exactly how republican policies widen the gap between rich and poor and still they blame democrats for what’s going on. Americans are being controlled by a corporate media that appears liberal on social issues because republicans benefit from the wedge issues that divide us. God gays guns and racism drives poor people into the republicans arms.

or the 50% that dont pay taxs can get jobs and pay their fair share

The rich don’t just want the poor to pay their fair share. They want you to also. Oh you disagree with them now? You think you pay enough in taxes? Compared to the rich you don’t pay squat. So your taxes will go up too.

Do not argue later that this is unfair.

the rich pay far more than i do,,,

 

[sealybobo]

The video in the OP is one giant Post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. The driver isn't the relaxing of laws related to mergers and acquisitions. It is because of IRA's, 401K's have added immense pressure on publicly traded companies to force growth by any means possible.

I’ve heard when republicans lowered taxes on the rich it took away the way we regulated corporate greed. We taxed anyone’s income above a certain amount so much they didn’t bother. So they invested all that money back into the business. Gave employees raises and insurance.

So today CEOs pay themselves like baseball players. They and all their generals get all the money. The shareholders get some and they don’t complain because the coward of directors of your company is a bunch of CEOs of other companies. They are doing it too.

CEO pay is largely stock related. We saw companies during earnngs seasons recently see their stocks drop after they beat expectations simply because it was done on less revenue. Amazon shares aren't $1600+ a share because they pay dividends.

The way I understand it is that when taxes were lowered on top earners, it caused greed.

And CEOs stopped worrying about the long term. They only worry about the next 5 years so they can make a fortune. Employees don’t get a cut.

Union employees would have got profit sharing. Today the ceo gets it all.

In fact, when Henry Ford raised his workers pay to 5 bucks a day and allowed them to buy the Model T on payments, the other Leaders all called him a Traitor to his Class. .

Because of Birth-Class Supremacy, We've Had Decade After Decadent Decade and Generation After Degenerate Generation


Since we are all programmed to ignore the controlling effect of birth privileges, the truth must be that class is hereditary. Henry Ford was born to a farm family, so he couldn't have been a traitor to the stagnant and firmly fixed class he had reached on his own. His incompetent son, Edsel, and his bullying clown grandson, Henry II, were of that class. That's why Ford has been going downhill ever since the mechanically inclined farmboy stopped running it.

In another misdefinition protecting HeirHeads, Kareem Abdul Jabbar was identified as "part of basketball's aristocracy, which is why we should listen to him." Only his son and grandson could be considered aristocratic, and nobody should expect them to have anything significant to say about the NBA.

My father was poor. He got a good union job with good benefits and now his son, my brother, is a Vice President of a Fortune 500. I do alright too.

So my brother and I can tell you the benefits of unions even though neither of us have ever belonged to a union.