Re:Amazon cuts Whole Foods prices
by ChristianBundy on Thursday August 24, 2017 @11:53PM
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> I'm starting to wonder if all large successful corporations are just a type of legal sociopath, driven to crazy extremes via corporate zealotry.
Yes, in the same way that feudal lords and slave-owners are legal sociopaths. Capitalism is inherently exploitative.
Re:Amazon cuts Whole Foods prices
by devmunchies on Friday August 25, 2017 @02:38AM
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Capitalism is a pretty organic and free system. I think its just people who are exploitative. It the economy were even more free, it would be even worse.
Given that freer markets are associated with massive reductions in poverty and increased standards of living around the world, what makes you think a freer economy would be "even worse"?
Re:Amazon cuts Whole Foods prices
by devmunchies on Friday August 25, 2017 @03:40PM
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Even worse as in "more exploitative". I was arguing that people, not the economic structure, are exploitative. So an economy where people are more free, there will be more exploitation (which isn't a fault of capitalism but of people). I'm very pro-free-market.
Amazon has arm-twisted competitors like Zappos into sub-optimal acquisitions by selling goods at a loss, and it's a fair question to ask if less or no competition really benefits consumers in the long-run.
I'm starting to wonder if all large successful corporations are just a type of legal sociopath, driven to crazy extremes via corporate zealotry.