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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-29-10 02:33 PM
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24. Yes all of those things are feasible.
You might not like the restricted choice, but certainly governments can and do provide goods and services. By the way the postal service is a 'gummint trucking company' that provide a service that enables commerce, communication, and connections to communities that capitalist enterprises simply could not provide as there is no profit in it.

If 'some people' stated that 'all corporations are evil' they misstated or grossly over-simplified the progressive left view on modern capitalism. The issue is not one of good or evil. The Great Satan is not holding court in Jackson Hole this week. The issue we are faced with, which as I stated earlier one of the chief symptom of which is the blatant dysfunctional corruption of this republic, are way more complicated and interesting than this fake binary morality play you want to have fun with.

For example:
This system is ruining the planet. It is very successful at generating vast wealth, mountains of consumer goods, and passive consumer societies, but it is based on a model of continuous growth and assumes infinite resources while it concurrently avoids almost all the 'externalities' associated with its orgy of production. As the post industrial societies of western europe and north america burn up the remaining supplies of cheap oil, destabilizing the ecosphere in the process, billions of outsiders are striving to live the same way we do. Is capitalism in its current form really the only option? If it is we are in serious trouble.




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