| sapphi_snake said: @mrstickball: It's not just laws that benefit one company over another, but laws that benefit companies over consumers as well. Where do you think all of the anti-litigious propaganda comes from? Big corporations, who spread misinformation in order to cheat consumers out of their rights. They actually fool consumers into lobbying their own rights away. And that is why I said the government needs to be available to ensure that contracts are adhered to, and if companies lie to consumers, they are made to pay for it. If the company ends up being the only one on the market (as is the dream of most capitalist business owners), they'll essentially be able to do whatever they want within an unregulated market (not to mention tha the lack of competition will lead to poor quality products at higher prices). The only way to maintain competition is to have a regulated market, else at one point you'll have companies eliminating their competition based on their resources (buying them out, having huge advertising campaigns that eclipse the competition), not on the quality of their products/services. Care to give some examples of this happening? I'd like some examples of singular companies that maintain a monopoly for a significant amount of time with no interference from any other company. You are aware that there's no socialism in Romania, no? Socialism, and the whole left wing for that manner, has pretty much disappeared from Romania since the fall of the Communist regime (doesn't surprise me., as Romanian's have been typically supporters of right wing conservative ideals, and were more sympathetic to the Nazis rather than the Communists). Everything's been privatized. I'm not sure there are any significant regulations to the market. Laws meant to protect the consumer are useless. Health care isn't free etc. You had ~50 years of communism. That was my point. Comparatively, many places didn't have the said 50 years of communism and have fared much better. Of the countries you mentione, I'm quite sure New Zealand is much more socialist than Romania is. Plus, deregulation didn't reallz helo Iceland, no? According to virtually any economic freedom score, you are wrong. Heritage's Freedom Index puts Romania at #65, and New Zealand at #4 in terms of overall economic freedom. Although Romania is certainly improving. Also, I had no ideea that the US has half the population of Romania. Ohio. The state I live in. I wanted to pick a state that is roughly analogous to Romania (we have about the same size/population density) |
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