zonkedout1 wrote:
Business isn't deregulated. Business is over regulated, just not smartly regulated.
I'm referring to a direction... the direction of neoliberalism, which is essentially to deregulate and whether or not YOU think business is over-regulated, the fact remains that deregulation HAS increased over the last 30 years.
zonkedout1 wrote:
The most important aspect of regulating a business, transparency of product made or service provided, is rarely a reality.
No offense, but you don't know what the most important aspect of regulating business is... it can be different from one case to another. So save that retarded lecture for the idiots.
zonkedout1 wrote:
But, height of stairs, handicap accessibility, light bulbs to be used. The truth is, honesty is couched away in Trade Secret law, and cost is driven up by ridiculous acronyms, OSHA, MSHA, EEOC, ERA, EPA, etc. The most important aspect of a free market is knowing what your getting.
Where do you get this crap from? The most important aspect of a free market? Are you f*cking kidding me? "Free market" is a symbolic reference to a market that is free from government policy. Any assumptions about it's advantages or disadvantages are subjective.
zonkedout1 wrote:
Apple doesn't want you to know that you don't own a song you buy, you're just leasing it.
Apple doesn't care if you know.
zonkedout1 wrote:
In fact ownership of data is becoming increasingly difficult in the tech universe, and we merely lease data packets. Monsanto throws people in jail for seed planting without license.
Possession is no longer 9/10 of the law in the data universe.
Do you realize the irony of what you just stated? You just presented two examples (Apple and Monsanto) where possession is the very basis of the problems you see. Monsanto can sue farmers for planting their seeds, because they OWN a patent on the design of the seed and then you say possession is no longer 9/10 of the law.
zonkedout1 wrote:
The stuff you are talking about isn't a consumer driven market place. It's an employee driven marketplace.
I don't think you actually know what I am talking about and I'm not so sure I know what you are talking about either.
zonkedout1 wrote:
Without giving people that own small businesses options, nobody wants to provide anything new or distinct.
Options?
Are you trying to parrot that idiotic assertion made by sad dullards that think innovation can only happen if it's profitable? How sad. How sad that so many people buy that crap. The truth is... innovation happens regardless... it's a creative process, much like art in the sense that financial incentive is irrelevant. The only significant impact that financial incentive DOES present is the opportunity for non-innovative simpletons to commoditize the innovation so they can "own" it.
zonkedout1 wrote:
The big guys are all competing for existing marketshares and not creating anything new. Why? All the bullshit that goes on w/ starting a business in an atmosphere of government oversight.
That's 95% BS. The reason why they aren't creating anything new is because they can make more money selling the same old crap. I've started three businesses in my day and it really isn't that difficult.
It cracks me up that so many people whine and cry about how "hard" it is to start a business. Look, if you can't start a business in today's climate, even with all the government oversight, then you would probably fail anyway.