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Ideally, we really shouldn't allow any individual to gain too large a share of any kind of power, whether financial or political or whatever. Of course, that's
by leggomylibro 9y ago
Ideally, we really shouldn't allow any individual to gain too large a share of any kind of power, whether financial or political or whatever.
Of course, that's probably also a good way to get systems and things which are...well, designed by committee.
- colechristensen 9y agoThe United States was designed to harness competition. It is what was supposed to keep us successful. It has done a very good job. If there are 20 burger restaurants, the best burger isn't designed by committee. Each will try to improve to stay in the market and the people who decide who survives and who dies is determined by the people choosing which burger to eat. It works as long as there is competition. One burger restaurant winning all of the business with a great burger, and then using scale to make competition impossible followed by lowering the quality to find minimum cost with maximum profit... that's another outcome of capitalism, and one we're suffering now. To make it work you need centralized authority that resists corruption and can put it's finger on the scale to encourage the appropriate amount of diversity.