Originally posted by jimmac
I suspect that this is old news but many do not seem to get it. ANY system that rewards those at the top for hurting society is fundamentally flawed. I work at PPG Australia and the Americans have decided that they no longer want to share productivity with anyone. The more productive we become the worse of we are. End of story. We keep being told that we need ...[text shortened]... ve themselves.I have much much more to say but will see if anyone has a comment.
Jim Mc
This is because human nature is fundamentally flawed.
If socialism has taught us anything, it is that government can't run big business, let alone most of anything else. Government is the type of institution that can't get a web site up and running for a takeover of health care, and then passes regulations taking over the internet, all in one breath.
Even the communist Chinese have come to this conclusion. As much as it pains the most ardent collectivist, they must surrender at least some control back to private industry. Hell, even Hitler realized as much, which is why he joined socialism with allowing private industry. Hitler once said, "Why nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people?" Collectivists like Hitler realized that there is no need to own business in name when you can pull the strings from afar.
Hitler showed the modern day collectivist the way to go. Allow massive corporate monopolies, which are really just mini governments themselves, to control and manipulate the economy for you. Then all that is needed is coercing and making deals with those who run those corporations.
Now you are correct that large corporations don't do much for the economy. In fact, in the US small business hires up to 2/3 of the work force and not corporations. The reason people continue to suffer economically in the US is because small business continues to die. Here of late the federal government bailed out corporations via US tax payer money, and simply watched small business around the US die. Those in government realize that their bread in butter comes from corporate America, not small business, so they will make sure that corporations continue to reign and rule over us, even if it means stealing trillions of dollars of US taxpayer money to do it by bailing them out, cause everyone knows they are "too big to fail". LOL
After all, those in government don't produce anything for society, nor do they know how. All they do is sit back and micromanage anything that comes into view. Never forget, the very greed that drives corporations like the one you are apart of, also drives those in government. I think you will find that the more powerful and wealthy people become, the worse they become in terms of greed and corruption.
Knowing what we know about human nature, be very afraid of those in government promising the "fix" things. Ask yourself, who is funding them? In politics, you must sell your soul to the collectivist corporate model or you don't go anywhere in politics. Here in the states the game is played like this, Obama comes along and says he wants to raise tax rates on corporate America while corporations like GE who funded him don't pay any federal income taxes, let alone higher ones.
The game is, if you fund me and my quest for political power, you won't have to pay high taxes, if any. That way those that don't play the game get squeezed out, so you better fund a horse in the race politically.
And the ignorant masses just love this sort of talk of taxing the "rich" and will come out in droves to vote for them. Meanwhile, the middle class continues to tank and things continue as they always have. Here in the state they blame these sorts of things on the Tea Party, even though none of them have had any political power of significance, and people just continue to believe anything that the corporate media feeds them.
It's a sick game really, but it helps to know how things work.