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07-04-2005, 17:12
(For the duration of this thread we will assume things like price fixing laws, anti-competition laws and anti-trust laws are null and void)
The ultimate aim of capitalism is to have as much money as possible to buy as many material items as possible.
The strict definition of Communism is that the government owns everything.
But let’s just draw both those out to a (slightly extreme) conclusion.
Lets pretend that NS is a company, we're a very good company, (for arguments sake lets say we're an I.T. Company) with many well respected and hardworking employees, however we don't like other I.T. Companies, as competition means we have to lower our prices so that we can be competitive and sell our products, we'd much prefer to sell at the prices we want too, so instead of having lower prices (and thus lower profits, thus less money for us as big-wig managers) we simply decide to buy out another company, we buy all there shares and we own the company and do with it as we please. Lets keep doing it with every I.T. company that ever exists, as soon as a competitor starts up we buy them out, so we pretty much have free rain over how we want to price our products because you can't buy them from anywhere else.
Now let’s say we're the only I.T. Company on the planet, but we still reckon we could make more money, but how? Well why don't we buy the retail and wholesale companies that sell our products, because after all there making money on all our hard work, so we do. We buy up every I.T. related retail and wholesale company, and every company that we couldn't buy out we simply boycotted and stopped selling too.
We now own the manufacturing and selling of anything I.T. related on earth, but we still reckon we could make more money, but how, well the companies that we buy the materials from must by charging us a pretty penny or two, so we buy them out, now we own every single stage of the process, form raw materials through to construction through to end sale in the I.T. business.
Now that we've completely dominated I.T. we're getting a little bored, so we decide to branch off into another area, and use our vast wealth that we've accumulated to easily steamroll our way to other areas with the same results as our efforts in I.T. soon (relatively speaking) we own virtually every single industry, 99% of the earths population in some way works for us, with the rest being Amish, hippies, or the last vestiges of "Fair-Trade"
Now isn't this communism?
One entity in charge of everything.
Is a Corporate Communism any better that Government Communism?
The ultimate aim of capitalism is to have as much money as possible to buy as many material items as possible.
The strict definition of Communism is that the government owns everything.
But let’s just draw both those out to a (slightly extreme) conclusion.
Lets pretend that NS is a company, we're a very good company, (for arguments sake lets say we're an I.T. Company) with many well respected and hardworking employees, however we don't like other I.T. Companies, as competition means we have to lower our prices so that we can be competitive and sell our products, we'd much prefer to sell at the prices we want too, so instead of having lower prices (and thus lower profits, thus less money for us as big-wig managers) we simply decide to buy out another company, we buy all there shares and we own the company and do with it as we please. Lets keep doing it with every I.T. company that ever exists, as soon as a competitor starts up we buy them out, so we pretty much have free rain over how we want to price our products because you can't buy them from anywhere else.
Now let’s say we're the only I.T. Company on the planet, but we still reckon we could make more money, but how? Well why don't we buy the retail and wholesale companies that sell our products, because after all there making money on all our hard work, so we do. We buy up every I.T. related retail and wholesale company, and every company that we couldn't buy out we simply boycotted and stopped selling too.
We now own the manufacturing and selling of anything I.T. related on earth, but we still reckon we could make more money, but how, well the companies that we buy the materials from must by charging us a pretty penny or two, so we buy them out, now we own every single stage of the process, form raw materials through to construction through to end sale in the I.T. business.
Now that we've completely dominated I.T. we're getting a little bored, so we decide to branch off into another area, and use our vast wealth that we've accumulated to easily steamroll our way to other areas with the same results as our efforts in I.T. soon (relatively speaking) we own virtually every single industry, 99% of the earths population in some way works for us, with the rest being Amish, hippies, or the last vestiges of "Fair-Trade"
Now isn't this communism?
One entity in charge of everything.
Is a Corporate Communism any better that Government Communism?