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Ah, Yes. American capitalism. Where the "Captains of Industry" wax lyrical about how "competition" and unbridled capitalism, are THE greatest and finest of thin
by throwawaymanbot 9y ago
Ah, Yes. American capitalism. Where the "Captains of Industry" wax lyrical about how "competition" and unbridled capitalism, are THE greatest and finest of things. But in reality, in American style capitalism, they pay people off, to kill/crush/stomp competition, while pleading that "regulation" is impeding their ability to do just that.
- josteink 9y agoYou have to at least admire how openly this occurs. You'd think in a democracy everyone involved in what's the textbook-definition of corruption would try to somewhat obscure what's going on, but nope: it's all in the open.
- throwawaymanbot 9y agoTrue. But I would say its mostly in the open. We can guess from contributions and declared lobbyist visits. Weasel worded bills and regulations in documents pushed through to old men who have mostly no idea or concept of what they are changing, but who only know the value of $$$ campaign or personal contributions isn't something I would call open.
- gech 9y agoIf we didn't have Ars Technica how would we have heard about it?
- shmerl 9y agoNo, they hate publicity.