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[quote]Xav wrote:
[quote]Zeppelin795 wrote:
No big business monopolies is the disease and both parties are owned by them and that is the disease.
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There are laws that prevent businesses from becoming monopolies. That’s the point of businesses: competition to have a high productivity and a good quality / price ratio. Maybe a business monopoly might exist, but it’s the exception…
The vast majority, if not all, of the monopolies that exist in the world are government-run leading to inefficiency due to the lack of competition. Competing with the government is impossible.
EDIT: I forgot to add that I really do not understand how you can speak of “corporate media”. The vast majority of the media has a huge left wing bias…
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Try the finance sector, big pharma just to name a few. Well entrenched monopolies. They exist and have an unfair advantage over everyone else and do a net harm to the population of the U.S.
The corporate media exists. I think there are only 6 major companies that own over 80% of the news outlets. They are there to further their own agenda which is often at odds with the public. They continually tell you things they want you to hear. The news is filtered to represent a narrow point of view for the elites. The NY Times is often referred to as liberal. But they led the drumbeat for the immoral Iraqi war. When you know that GE is a major defense contractor who makes billions off war and that they own the NY Times is it any wonder? So no the corporate media is not liberal it is biased to those who own it. And who are they?
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Incorrect. There are multiple “big pharma” companies that compete, hence it’s not a monopoly. If a corporate monopoly exists it’s usually due to government subsidies.
What do you mean by “unfair advantage”? Financially speaking?
Are you seriously saying that the companies that produce medicine to help people heal do net harm to a population? I find this an extremely bizarre opinion, do you mind explaining this?
Corporate media. Once again, 6 outlets is no monopoly. I wholeheartedly agree with you that the media has an agenda and a narrow point of view and is biased to those who own it, but this bias is usually left wing. Most of the media isn’t objective at all. However, claiming they say what the elite (I suppose this means right wing rich people) wants to hear is weird. The vast majority of the media is quite left wing, during the U.S. elections I have not heard a single criticism of Obama, while Romney was portrayed as the reincarnation of the devil himself. In the end, I don’t mind about this, it’s freedom of speech after all. It just saddens me we have no strong right wing media outlets. I find it interesting though that since the NY times have 1 point of view that doesn’t stroke with your liberal views they must be part of the big bad corporate monopoly. What happened to reading other views and opinions to challenge your own views? Your last paragraph is a beautiful illustration of how the left wing believes its opinions are the only correct ones and do not accept any criticism / challenging and honest discussion of different views.
VTBalla said: On a side note, you have no idea how happy it makes me that your higher taxes go to my salary…LOLOLO so awesome.
Spoken like a true socialist. Entitlement to other people’s money while being way less productive than the people you insult.
By the way since you seem to think Maximus’ spelling and use of coma’s is relevant to this discussion, I’ll return the favor. What does LOLOLO mean? Laughing out loud out loud out? English isn’t my mother tongue tongue, but that sentence doesn’t seem to make any sense.