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Everyone’s correctly bringing up slavery and colonialism, but I wanna throw one more fuck you onto this pile, bailouts. Fair competition is when it’s against the rules for some competitors to lose.
It’s actually one of the only areas where capitalism does encourage innovation, innovation in methods to offload risk.
Companies love to push risk down to the worker, or even better use contract labor to avoid almost all liability and risk to the company itself
Well, they do love it, but they would do it anyway. It’s like Matt said on a recent episode, even at the heights of power, you really don’t have a lot of decision making power, everything is compelled by competition and momentum. Capitalism is a fuck.
Fuck but is that not true. My brother's in the process of buying a home with his fiancee. The bank basically owns the place until it is payed out in full, and real estate is an appreciating asset. No risk for them. They charge interest, which we're told is to make up for investment risk or whatever, so they're covered twice over. Oh, but that is not enough -- they've made them take out a life insurance, so that if something should happen to them the bank will be covered and not lose out on the investment.
burn it all down
Having to sit down and reduce the list of American atrocities really says a lot.
Packwood's political career began to unravel in November 1992, when a Washington Post story detailed claims of sexual abuse and assault from ten women, chiefly former staffers and lobbyists. Publication of the story was delayed until after the 1992 election, as Packwood had denied the allegations and the Post had not gathered enough information about the story at the time. Packwood defeated the Democratic nominee, Congressman Les AuCoin, 52.1% to 46.5%–easily his closest race since his initial run for the seat a quarter-century earlier. Eventually 19 women came forward.
As the situation developed, Packwood's diary became an issue. Wrangling over whether the diary could be subpoenaed and whether it was protected by the Fifth Amendment's protection against self-incrimination ensued. He did divulge 5,000 pages to the Senate Ethics Committee but balked when a further 3,200 pages were demanded by the committee. It was discovered that he had edited the diary, removing what were allegedly references to sexual encounters and the sexual abuse allegations made against him. Packwood then made what some of his colleagues interpreted as a threat to expose wrongdoing by other members of Congress. The diary allegedly detailed some of his abusive behavior toward women and, according to a press statement made by Richard Bryan, at that time serving as senator from Nevada, "raised questions about possible violations of one or more laws, including criminal laws".
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Ah yes, the "fair competition" of slavery and bombing people into submission.
What a fucking joke of a country :amerikkka:
Even if you ignore all the heinous oppressive shit, the US got to its position through heavily protectionist policies, which are inherently anti-competition.
Even at its relatively 'fairest', the US had the luxury of not dealing with vast swaths of infrastructure bombed out by war, unlike the rest of the world. It's also why just talking about medicare and bring back 'good jobs' etc is also bullshit. If the solutions don't include a global perspective, there is never fair competition.
“Which is also why at every point corporations have attempted to further consolidate their wealth and eliminate competition.”
