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for a single company, which has to be done by acquisition most of the time, is fundamentally unsound. I'm not talking about Adam Smith, I'm talking about the modern style. Government ownership wouldn't be necessary if we understood the limits of growth.
It's demanded that even monopolies grow in double digits year-over-year, if they don't their stock gets devalued. The multinational monopolies are killing us, right now, and they must be broken up if sanity is to return, but if they don't kill us they die.
I'm thinking smart people could come up with a better model that recognizes this limitation and returns some rationalism to the market. I love mom and pop shops, built out of the love of something, or just from that self-starting mentality.
Freedom to start a business, freedom to create with new ideas and fresh approaches, and freedom to fail are all wonderful things, but the system itself is designed to destroy such things. So few have so much paper that they can trade it around nearly autonomously and manipulate the markets (stock, commodities and FOREX). We have this top heavy, crash and rebuild cycle, but we never fix the underlying problem. The market guys just say, oh well, this happens every so often, nothing we can do - it's the cost of doing business.
Imagine profit being more important than a baby having medical care, well-baby care is very important. I'm glad I don't do any actual work for the insurance cartels, I can't imagine what kind of horrors I'd be privy to. I'm just wondering if I've fallen off the deep end, or if others can see the wall, also.
To me systems are systems, they are not sacred. You use what works until you find something that works better. What's the point of the system we're using and does it work as it claims to? It seems to fail a basic logic test for me. I keep expecting some really well thought out paper from some Ph.D. economist to come along and straighten this out with some even more perfect system, but apparently that's like expecting fairies and unicorns to come and carry us all away to la-la land.
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