by Ice Cream Jonsey » Thu Jun 26, 2003 11:09 am
Roody_Yogurt wrote:Robb, that's interesting that you relate the RIAA to communism when I just basically see it as unrestrained capitalism. The companies that make up near-monopolies in the last 150 years have just gotten that much better at playing the game, and it'll always be more about profit margins than idealized attitudes towards the consumer.
You're absolutely right, of course. I was trying to head down one comedic stream by working in a mention of communism and socialism and then mid-river I realized that alternative governments really had nothing to do with what I wanted to ultimately talk about, which was monopolies and playing capitalism "unfairly." Having abandoned the communism and socialism angle, I never did get round to making a joke about them or anything.
That leads to a post which, on the surface appears to be written by a mindless trog or animated gonad.
(And actually, pretty far beneath the surface as well.)
Let me re-phrase what I intended to say:
I see capitalism working best when it models itself after football rather than baseball. In American football, all teams have set up economic "rules" so that the end user (or consumer) will see the most benefit. Baseball has no such rules. Similarly, capitalism works best for the consumer when monopolies, cartels, mobs and trusts are not around. We've got rules in place to stop those things, and even made Taft a mythic hero for being the "Trustbuster," but corporations today are able to throw an enormous amount of money at politicians who therefore stop caring about their unfair and illegal practices. I am working on a reagent to hopefully imbibue
life into Taft o how i wish he would return they laffed at me at mistkatonic universit but they will not be laffing any longer trusss me i have a very good head on my shoulders ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah taft will live again ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
[quote="Roody_Yogurt"]Robb, that's interesting that you relate the RIAA to communism when I just basically see it as unrestrained capitalism. The companies that make up near-monopolies in the last 150 years have just gotten that much better at playing the game, and it'll always be more about profit margins than idealized attitudes towards the consumer.[/quote]
You're absolutely right, of course. I was trying to head down one comedic stream by working in a mention of communism and socialism and then mid-river I realized that alternative governments really had nothing to do with what I wanted to ultimately talk about, which was monopolies and playing capitalism "unfairly." Having abandoned the communism and socialism angle, I never did get round to making a joke about them or anything.
That leads to a post which, on the surface appears to be written by a mindless trog or animated gonad.
(And actually, pretty far beneath the surface as well.)
Let me re-phrase what I intended to say:
I see capitalism working best when it models itself after football rather than baseball. In American football, all teams have set up economic "rules" so that the end user (or consumer) will see the most benefit. Baseball has no such rules. Similarly, capitalism works best for the consumer when monopolies, cartels, mobs and trusts are not around. We've got rules in place to stop those things, and even made Taft a mythic hero for being the "Trustbuster," but corporations today are able to throw an enormous amount of money at politicians who therefore stop caring about their unfair and illegal practices. I am working on a reagent to hopefully imbibue [i]life[/i] into Taft o how i wish he would return they laffed at me at mistkatonic universit but they will not be laffing any longer trusss me i have a very good head on my shoulders ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah taft will live again ah ah ah ah ah ah ah