Monday, September 24, 2012

capitalism's inherent tendency toward exploitation?

What a minute. What? "capitalism's inherent tendency toward exploitation?" How's that? I see government's collusion with special interests, (Solyndra, Exim Bank, Ethanol, farm price supports, National Recovery Act, UAW, etc.) tending to exploitation. But what are you referring to? 

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Subject: [Bipartisan Soapbox] Refs of the World Unite

Bill,

Despite your optimism (or is skepticism?) about the true state of the Presidential sweepstakes, your talent for exposing my potential conservative tendencies remains intact. As I have written previously I see unions as an essential counterweight to capitalism's inherent tendency toward exploitation, but a devil's bargain, given their tendency to calcify eventually into cabals whose sole purpose is to protect the interests of their members, even if it hastens the destruction of the enterprises that employ them. So I stand with the NFL refs on this one, who are being made an example of by the owners in old fashion effort to show the players who is boss before the next round of labor negotiations.

I would also argue that  blaming the officiating for last night's Patriot loss to the Ravens, bizarre at it was, is akin to blaming the media for Mitt's Romney's beyond pathetic performance as a Presidential candidate to date. If I were a Republican I'd be shocked and dismayed, as many apparently are.

As far as the polls go, I'm surprised you don't mention the descriptor that has proved unerringly predictive above all others in the last several election cycles, the InTrade Market. After all, these folks are expressing something far more important than just a preference. They are voting with their pocketbooks.

Eli

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Posted By E Butcher to Bipartisan Soapbox at 9/24/2012 11:36:00 AM

1 comment:

  1. Wouldn't capitalism's encouragement for everyone to be greedy qualify?

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