Originally Posted by Chiantiglace
Thats just not true at all, where are you getting your facts? Are you going to call blame on large corporations because a couple like enron and aig are disaster stories? What about all the companies that produce and do so very well? what of the rest of the fortune 500? not to mention the hundreds and thousands of relatively large companies lined up behind them.
In fact the evidence shows that when countries loosen their borders and restraints on privatization the economy booms. Every single european nation that opened up and cooperated with the european union has seen amazing increases in production and economic position. Simply within a couple of years very large companies came to form and were helping a lot of people out of poverty. Look at the difference in school systems where they are or were largely privatized. Florida attempted that several years ago with great success until the teachers union brought the whole thing down. Privatization filters the lazy and the pathetic, always. Enron's story would not have happened if the people there weren't cutting each others throats, there was no healthy competition or transparency. The idea of business was to sell each other out for raises and promotions, the employees were scared for their life and willing to knock anyone aside to keep their job, and if it meant blacklisting someone for nothing then the lies piled in. Lay produced a great company that didn't none of these things, infact quite the opposite, Skilling, his replacement, was the one that turned the company upside down for his own personal gain.
We can easily get carried away with regulation, I think it would be better to have communication and transparency. If someone blew the whistle on Skilling and Fastow long before then we would have a problem, but the people are somewhat pathetic.
Also, when has the public ever been anything but "dense". I think Jay Leno does a great job notifying that factor with his "Jaywalking", but throughout time there hasn't been much change in the public mental capacity. The only time that may have peaked was during the industrial revolution or just prior to it when coffee and tea were fighting for most popular drink in Britain, other than that people seem to ignore lifes complexities. How many times have you heard someone tell you that they "don't like politics". How can you live your life without politics, even if you were on a deserted island with only three other people, politics is unavoidable, it's what shapes your life, but people just want security, and if you take privatization away they will probably get their much wanted security which slowly enslaves the rest of us who want nothing more than to achieve more (with a net wrapped around us carrying those who need "security"). People don't have a right to security if it takes away the rights of others to pursue their own happiness. And people don't have the right to pursue happiness if it affects the natural rights of others. But unfortunately in the world with such cognitive dissonance people scream for blood simply through fear that their rights are being taken away, when in reality they are not, the are just being pushed to act on the right to survive, and they don't know how.
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