Message from @Arch-Fiend
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still not nearly enough doggos for cargo containers and stuff
the vast overwhelming majority of that stuff never gets inspected
There are no chicks with dicks, only dudes with mental illness.
get help soon @halfthink
@halfthink so it suck ducks now
U wot m8?
That video Adam did on Amazon was good up until the point he started offering solutions. His argument was basically "government created this monopoly because it is in their interests to create monopolies, so we need bigger government to break up monopolies"
when these megacorporations have more power, control and clout than most governments, do you suggest we just sit back and watch?
Crow, do you shop with amazon?
Where do you think corporations get their power from? It's not from fair competition in the market, it's from leveraging government force against competitors. There is an upper limit to how big a corporation can possibly grow under free market conditions. Amazon has only been able to exceed that limit thanks to the artificial competitive advantages granted to it by the government.
doesn't mean they aren't there
Be gone
no, I don't think so. Amazon isn't really a thing here, they don't really do much in this part of the world (yet) and shipping tends to be prohibitively expensive.
Power comes from influence which in this situation comes from wealth, which is accrued over time, by fair means or foul. Enough of a headstart or through consolidation, and they can leverage their force however they like if nobody interferes, thus crushing or absorbing all competitors.
Even if you *could* own a farm in medieval Europe *technically*, ever doing so was *in practice* impossible because all the land was already staked and you could only rent the land, "The Oligarchy" wouldn't sell to you and getting enough money was near impossible either way. Today of course it's other resources than farmland that are controlled. Google hides you from search algorithms? Good luck getting people to know you exist, as an upstart your operational margins are slim to begin with. MasterCard and Visa yeets you? What do you have left? Good luck running a business and paying your employees in bitcoin.
Oh god.
@halfthink in a sense that's more of a fascist establishment than any low-government republican.
Mixing of government and industry
https://youtu.be/Im6UgLuXch8
White people.
*Capitalism is evil because socialised money makes fractional reserve banking possible*
I feel like this could be an argument for either socialism or capitalism honestly.
Also we're living in the richest nation and have arguably the highest living standard of any nation in the world.
Though, everyone in the US are fat, lazy, miserable little bitches (myself included), so that's not great.
richest nation, but not per capita, so that's hardly a worthwhile measure if you're not actively in the process of signing trade deals and can use it for leverage personally. And in living standards US loses out to all the ScandiWegian countries, Germany, New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, etc. Don't get me wrong, US is up there, but still a fair distance from the top by all conventional measurements.
Shits and giggles: mixing pot and laxatives into the brownie mix
Don't do that!
Well that was fucking weird.
I like how leftists claim they give a shit about me and my battle buddies, and other service members.
🤔
I mean, how far left are we talking?
I'm to the left, but not stupid left.