>>I'm afraid that "making a profit for their owner's" has become the license to try to get away with whatever one can. And it is clear to me that the demise of the Communist block has changed the situation for the worse. Whereas before it was necessary to keep the brakes on much of the MBA's finaglings in order to show that our system is far more advantageous to it's citizens than communism, now it is a free-for-all. Wherever big business can exploit, it will.
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>My thoughts exactly. I've said this many years ago, and I'm sad to see it happen.
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>Capitalism has lost its primary ingredient - competition. Now it's getting more and more under its own influence. Most of the makeup it received in the previous century is peeling off.

The really dreadful part of this is that the media is one of "them", so we see/hear/read very little exposing the non-corporate side of this. When we do it is limited to destructive actions by hooligans at world conferences, which they calculate will generate negativity to the "cause" they are espousing. And it does, too!
There is only marginal (if any) mention of the tens of thousands of peaceful demonstrators at these "events". The fact that there are such numbers worrying on our behalf gets totally lost in the coverage.

I can see things getting much much worse before there is even a chance to correct things. Where we (the average Joe) should be more powerful than ever before, we are in fact far less able to effect any change whatsoever than even 20 years ago.