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In reply to the discussion: Here's how to change the world [View all]BlindTiresias
(1,563 posts)23. I am saying without significant intervention
The temptation for capitalists to do what they do and accrue profit at the expense of all else is too great, this is especially true when you consider that the third world is just as capitalist as we are and where the capitalists have shifted a good deal of production due to low labor protections and low pay. Furthermore even good actors like Senegal's Costco are not isolated and are often reliant upon much less scrupulous actors. Relying on the people to selectively choose only the most moral is typical libertarian garbage for why we don't need any regulation whatsoever as consumer choice can generate self regulation. It doesn't work.
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That doesn't surprise me you can see it here at D.U. as well, not from a top down manipulation
Uncle Joe
Jun 2014
#7
We are the Internet, without us there is no Information Superhighway or it would be something
Uncle Joe
Jun 2014
#12
The masses both here and abroad that make up the Internet aren't static, we're not locked into a
Uncle Joe
Jun 2014
#26
We won't because that idea doesn't have enough merit supported by the people.
Uncle Joe
Jun 2014
#28
Extremists of all types exist, that's always been the case, but I have faith in the majority
Uncle Joe
Jun 2014
#36