ruveyn wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
GoonSquad wrote:
xenon13 wrote:
Worker owned concerns are disadvantaged by the fact that Capitalism's domination means the Capitalists get the government to set the rules to benefit themselves and not the worker owned concerns. They do not like the competition.
That's why promoting worker owned business needs to be official public policy. It's the only way to offset capitalist malfeasance.
Capitalist malfeasance put your computer in front of your face and provided ALL the components of the international computer network you are using.
ruveyn
I thought that was capitalist innovation that made use of PC's common in everyone's households. I think what GoonSquad is getting at is how capitalists have often screwed over the working man and woman.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
That is true. But whatever private businessmen have to to us, the Government has done ten times worse, trumped the private folks in Spades. The main source of evil in the 20 th century was government. It will probably be the same in the 21 st century.
ruveyn
But there have been things government has given us that private business never could - civil rights, police and military protection, a social safety net, etc. In fact, I would be very fearful if those things were ever privatized.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
20 Jan 2013, 1:33 pm
