Thread: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
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IsaacDFP is offline IsaacDFP
2011-02-19 , 13:02
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Originally Posted by slender View Post
"We have freee market, We have free market!", "No! You have cartel where corporations spend _huge_ amount of money to lobby their interest". Money goes to share holders compared to government. There is difference there that anyone can join the "party" by buying stocks, but still itīs in a way same kind of situation.
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Originally Posted by smoku View Post
Fine.
Just stop saying that Free Market doesn't work.

We never tried it, so we don't actually know whether it works.

But analyses of different attempts on introducing free market practices lead to the conclusion that it should work.
I'm sorry but I can't do that. I'm not sure of which analyses you are refering to, but in the end, it all comes down to a monetary system, and everything within that system will fail. You know why? One word: ethics. It does not, but more importantly cannot, exist within a monetary system. Is it financially suicide to be ethical. If you make and sell lamps for exemple, in your own store, and there's another store in front of yours that also sells lamps but better than yours, you cannot tell your customers: "My lamps are 20$, the same price as my competitor, but you know what? His lamps are actually more durable, illuminate more and take less energy than mines". You cannot trust anybody in a monetary system. Free market or not, it shouldn't matter.