Oy Veh Ping.
Salon still publishing?
Another WSJ lefty that got the boot post-Reagan. Socialism dies hard, doesn’t it.
Free markets is what we need, not “capitalism”. Conservatives should favor free markets over “big business” any day.
“Pretty much every sector of the economy is dominated by a few Goliaths, sometimes a single dominant corporation.”
OK. Let’s say this is true, and the left fears a few Goliath corporations that control too much. So how in the world do they equate that with believing all will be better if the economy is dominated by a SOLE mega-Goliath, AKA the federal government? I’m all for breaking up big companies that use their crony capitalist connections with government to destroy competition, but putting faith in even bigger government to fix it all is doubling down on stupid.
We can’t have vibrant smaller companies when the huge corporations are the only ones capable of dealing with all the laws and red tape. Those laws protect the huge multinationals from competition.
I live in a neighborhood that works for a living, I have yet to meet a 1%’er.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
We don’t have free markets, we have a corporist system.
Large firm partner with the Fedgov in order to drive out competition.
All directly traceable to our Federal Reserve, fiat money, and the nanny-state. Oh, and by the way, that's NOT capitalism.
The other day I was at the dentist, having a great time inhaling nitrous oxide as anaesthetic for a procdure when I had the following thought:
At the end of your life, or anywhere in the middle for that matter; anything whatsoever you read in the Atlantic Monthly, Salon and all manner of similar navel-gazing magazines discussing subtle nuances of nothingness, so painstakingly constructed by the intellectual titans who inhabit these publications; versus developing and enjoying your life according to simple, time-proven and fundamental principles, is vanishingly meaningless.
This is the jack hole who wrote “What’s the matter with Kansas?”....a leftie bit of nonsense suggesting that conservatives are too stupid to vote in their own beat interest.
We’re going to learn about Free Markets and Capitalism from Salon and Barry Lynn?
That’s like trying to teach Christianity by reading from the Koran.
I live in the SF Bay Area where many rich Liberals reside, many in tech. I never knew how someone who earned a living could ever be Liberal, but they are everywhere, PhD’s who laugh about Cheney and water boarding and squeal about Bush, even now, in the face of Obama’s multiple failures and scandals.
Our old pal Thomas (voting against their economic interests) Frank is back. His book “What’s The Matter With Kansas” was a pile of Marxist garbage.
The premise is fallacious...... capitalism is far from dead
This author claims to have read Atlas, yet proceeds to commit the very same errors as Wesley Mouch and the rest of the looters, and in doing so outs himself as a looter. The first clue is any time you you see someone emphasizing the difference between what “ordinary” people have, and what the very very wealthiest have. The “wealth gap” or the “income gap” or “income inequality” or whatever fashionable term they have at the moment.
If I’m an “ordinary” person making my way in the world... What conceivable difference does it make to me in my life what somebody else has in their life? Whether they earned it or inherited it or found it laying beside the road has absolutely zero effect on my life and my decisions. If they want to buy something I’m selling then it even has a beneficial effect on me— but beyond that, his wealth costs me nothing.
The difference— the gap— between rich and poor, or rich and less rich, or rich and anybody else... Is one of the more irrelevant measurements to ever try to make. Any time you hear that, it’s a moocher hoping to get your sanction and leverage your own envy against you by claiming to be looting someone else.