> You see this, for example, in commercial air travel, where you get Soviet quality of service but the bizarre, unpredictable pricing you'd expect from a runawa

> You see this, for example, in commercial air travel, where you get Soviet quality of service but the bizarre, unpredictable pricing you'd expect from a runaway market (that is actually not so much a "market" as an algorithm designed to fuck you over). I don't do much air travel, so I can't say much about this personally. My questions about this specific topic are as follows: 1. Why don't the substandard airlines have their lunch eaten by a startup airline which combines good service with a simple pricing schedule? 2. What alternative are you proposing? > Corporatism is a system designed to give the best of both systems (capitalism and socialism) for a well-connected, parasitic social elite As far as I know -- again, I don't fly on a regular basis -- you don't have to be part of a "well-connected, parasitic social elite" to fly business class; cash or credit card will suffice. Likewise, you don't have to have any qualifications whatsoever, let alone be part of the "well-connected, parasitic social elite...[which is really] about 0.2%", in order to build your own company or become a shareholder of a publicly traded one.