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The difference is that the corporations are still participating in a free market trade, no one is forced to be a customer while communist governments don't have
by TomMarius 9y ago
The difference is that the corporations are still participating in a free market trade, no one is forced to be a customer while communist governments don't have to worry about losing a customer.
- 0xfeba 9y agoIt can be vastly more complicated than that. What with the auto industry bailouts, sub-prime lending, subsidized minimum wage jobs, etc. Corporations will take advantage of the government in ways that are very not capitalist if it suits them.
- kuschku 9y agoThis quickly changes if some companies products become basically required, though, or if companies gain monopolies.
- maxxxxx 9y agoIt seems with the bailouts of 2008 and other subsidies we are forced to support companies if we like it or not.
- TomMarius 9y agoThat's true and a sad consequence of increasingly socialist governments.