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"Pro-business" has apparently come to mean that any desire of a company, especially a large company, should be granted. That watch has a company logo? Pay up.
by sabat 16y ago
"Pro-business" has apparently come to mean that any desire of a company, especially a large company, should be granted. That watch has a company logo? Pay up.
- jshen 16y agohow does costco fit into your model?
- rictic 16y agoCould you expand on this point? I don't see the relationship between the parent's assertion and Costco (even after reading the wikipedia article on Costco).
- ars 16y agoHe means that costco is a business too. But their desires are not being granted. Meaning that his "pro-business" argument is wrong, since it's pro one business and against a different one. So his entire premise is false.
- electromagnetic 16y agoWell another issue is that costco is a wholesale company. Anything that is anti-costco is also opposing the untold thousands of small businesses that use costco to get cheap supplies and increase profits.
- CWuestefeld 16y agoJust to be perfectly clear (not that you made this mistake, but because I see so many others doing so when this topic comes up): The terms "pro-business" and "free market" are often taken as synonymous, when nothing could be further from the truth. A real capitalist market is not "pro-business" any more than it is "pro-consumer": it provides a level playing field in which all comers can interact based on their own merits and needs. The "pro-business" policies that we see so much of are not examples of evil capitalism. They are just as anti-capitalist as is socialism. These policies are more correctly called "corporatism". Please do not view the economic evils we see today, and use that to tar the ideas of capitalism.