The fragile USA

[mrstickball]

The_vagabond7 said:

mrstickball said:

Vagabond -

Can you give a good example in history of businesses, or any one business ruining a country? Can you given an example of unfettered free-market policies destroying a country?

If america is the great experiment, the first of it's kind, then you're not going to find a historical trend. At what point in history has their been a country that existed in the state we do now of mass media, industrialization, a capitalist world power, and world wide mega corporations?

You want a historical example? Give me a few decades and I'll point out the window.

Here's the problem:

You opine about capitalistic greed, and how it can destory, but every historical precedent argues that there are far larger, more prevalent favors involved in destroying nations: authority, and too much of it. Almost every great and small implosion has to do with a ruler, or rulers, wielding too much authority.

You can go on your assumption that worldwide mega corporations will destroy America, but I tend to believe that when too much authority causes 95% of implosions, I will stick with that being the litmus test for what will cause a countries downfall. Even in the case of capitalism or a corporation causing downfall, it will do such because it was given too much authority. I never said a government caused the problem, only authority. Of course, the government is usually the one wielding, or delegating, that authority, too.