Capitalism in Action #1
So ...Greece is running out of many pharmeceutical drugs, partly because big pharm conglomerates cannot get such a big price there, (although they could still make a per unit profit on them there), but mailnly because of their fear that middlemen in greece would sell them onto/in other countries where they could get far higher prices undercutting the going rate in those other countries, thus devaluing the prices in those other countries and affecting the pharm congloms profits.
Of course, some bodies could try to make it illegal for middlemen to do this, but I guess capitalists would hate this would be regylation on markets and purist capitalists sometimes pretend that capitalism should just be set free to do its own thing and everything would be OK
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The moment someone says the word Capitalism I think 99% of people veer away
People should invent a new word for it as the word nukes any argument it is involved in, ever.
what?
only if you are talking to people looking for an excuse to ignore/muddy the debate with semantics
welcome to DIS!
It would be fine if we had full-on global capitalism
Isn't that what you argue when people point out the shortcomings of communism unless it's full-on global communism?
Sorry, who exactly says that about communism?
Other than simpletons who fell into a time machine 30 or more years ago and just stepped out yesterday?
erm
I think we tried that didn't we?
Yes
Im glad you said that.....because it is correct.....if there were not the borders between greece and the other european states that artificially created the differential then there would be a smoother market, not one defined by different national regulations which have some similarities but then have differences sometimes developed along social iintervention and sometimes along nationalistic profit mindedness regarding competition between states.
I knew we'd agree on something evenutally
:) I always knew you were the sensible rational aspect of the dis right wing
dinner?
Fuck it
Why not?
we could discuss Denis Rodman's
US/NK relations mending trip
it is the mixture that provides false arguments and false conclusions as to the veracity of approaches which means that most politics that
is discussed in the 'moral tone' (as it is in western democracy) ...is bollocks
and as it is, with this mixture of types of artificial boundaries, and artificial unions of constituant parts. that the only entities that can truely profit in the short term
are those entities which can adapt to span the artificial borders.........such as international companies.
i.e. they have an advantage that even nations do not......international big investors in big companies have flexibility into where they move to, where they put stuff, because the currency of money (it should have its own symbol) can cross borders and regulations where other entities cannot.
Since everything else IS regulated to its disadvantage there should be MORE regulation on international companies, so that they cannot take advantage of situations so easily, to the detriment of people AND nations.
Such Regulation would have to come from the same level as the United nations or WHO or IMF :D :D but of course these are either not trustworthy enough, or accountable enough, or powerful enough, or taken seriously enough.