Those are good points. I'm all in favor of capitalism, as envisioned by the founding fathers. At that time, it was very difficult to remove all competition on a national scale, or even on the state level. Every town of any significance had it's own general store, or three, a blacksmith, saloon, etc. If someone rose to national prominence, it was through a superior product and/or service, and competition could pop up anywhere to challenge them.
We need a level playing field, and some way of preventing a handful of people from controlling every boardroom of every major corporation. And we need to remove all the secret societies with their handshake agreements and control over their fellows through the evil things they participated in together.
This reminds me of Walmart. They succeeded in small towns because they provided products that the local mom and pop stores couldn't match for price or variety. But how much of that was due to cheap Chineeze imports? What if they were forced to buy American, and had to franchise stores in small towns where the corporation doesn't own or run the store? How many of these big retail corporations are structured as real estate holding companies under the guise of being a retailer?
Those are good points. I'm all in favor of capitalism, as envisioned by the founding fathers. At that time, it was very difficult to remove all competition on a national scale, or even on the state level. Every town of any significance had it's own general store, or three, a blacksmith, saloon, etc. If someone rose to national prominence, it was through a superior product and/or service, and competition could pop up anywhere to challenge them.
We need a level playing field, and some way of preventing a handful of people from controlling every boardroom of every major corporation. And we need to remove all the secret societies with their handshake agreements and control over their fellows through the evil things they participated in together.
This reminds me of Walmart. They succeeded in small towns because they provided products that the local mom and pop stores couldn't match for price or variety. But how much of that was due to cheap Chineeze imports? What if they were forced to buy American, and had to franchise stores in small towns where the corporation doesn't own or run the store? How many of these big retail corporations are structured as real estate holding companies under the guise of being a retailer?
Just trying to throw out ideas for discussion....