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    Quote Originally Posted by Thondalar View Post
    It actually does, until the government gets involved.

    Before you bring up robber barons and other bullshit that happened 100 years ago, give me an example in the modern world. We're not uneducated hillbillies with one telegraph for the town. As a society we're more intelligent, and a LOT more connected. This would be the perfect environment for a truly free market to show what it could do for us, but it's now so bogged down with decades of government meddling it would be nearly impossible for us to find out.

    I think your anger is misguided...it's not the big corporations you should be railing against, but the banks. They caused the depression, and the latest recession...of course, the argument could be made that we, ourselves caused it by being too dependent on credit...but pfft. Why should we take responsibilities for our own actions, it's much easier to blame a nameless "evildoer".
    There are countless examples of corporate malfeasance in the modern world. Enron, Worldcom, Tyco (who I worked for) the list goes on.

    When we privatized AT&T the prices didn't go down at all. There was a perception of it at the start but it ended up being a tremendous cost increase over time.

    Here's a more recent example of liquor prices going up after privatization in Washington.

    http://www.kgw.com/news/After-privat...261440621.html

    It's cool how you're doing the blame the victim bit with banks. I'm sure you want them deregulated too, given your ridiculous intro sentence. Because that would make them better! Really!
    Last edited by Warriorbird; 07-23-2014 at 05:53 PM.

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