That's always been the problem. Of Corps would set their sights on reasonable gains there would be virtually no issues with the Capitalist system. They are killing it off to gorge the few who will temporarily survive.
Posted 7/6/2012 4:43 am
Read your idiot link and imagine someone who really believes man made global warming exists and posts provided links to try and convince others! You're a tool aka useful idiot.
They hire highly educated people at the corporate level to find ways to put their employees on social programs by paying them just under what makes them qualify for food stamps, housing, and general EBT cards. The taxpayer subsidizes their entire company. If that was taken away they would collapse overnight because the workers would all have to find a job somewhere else to make ends meet. Their stock would crash and the investors would get a few cents on the dollar after the ching chong creditors got first go at what is left.
Posted 7/8/2012 5:11 pm
Google is the best example of capitalism. They have a lot of money (capital) and they use it to fuck with other companies without any regard for whether it's good business. They don't even care if they lose money doing it, as long as it doesn't hurt their cash cow (search). That's what capitalism is: the concentration of capital that means some don't have to play by the rules, don't have to worry about competition and inevitably become spiteful, paranoid and insular, feeling threatened by everyone, lashing out at competitors and seeking to destroy anything that they don't own.
Posted 7/8/2012 5:36 pm
You fucks are too young to remember that there were WalMart style companies in the past, all of which went out of business. Gemco. FedCo. etc.
WalMart is riding high because of "free market" trade and the tax revolt in the US, allowing it to make deals with local government to save on taxes (deals which smaller retailers are unable to make).
If WalMart becomes successful to the extreme, running almost all competition out, it will raise prices very high. Can't happen? Look at the commercial airlines in the USA. Southwest comes into a market, undercuts the competition. After competition abandons the route, it raises fares to WAY above pre-competition levels.
when their business tactics eventually fuck you in the ass, umkay?
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