DesdinovaPremium
join:2003-01-26
Gaithersburg, MD | reply to openbox9
Re: Why cooperate with competitors ? "Laws and regulations exist to prevent all of your examples."
You're absolutely right. And they were put in place because so many businesses were doing those things because it was profitable.
I'm all about capitalism, competition and running a successful business but unfortunately, there are many times when the wants of the business conflict with the well-being and needs of the community around it. If the business acts responsibly, then there's no issue as they won't be hurting the good of the community (whatever the boundaries of that community may be...either online or an actual neighborhood) and no regulation is needed. But when the company's wants tilt so far out of alignment with the community that the business actively begins to unfavorably manipulate the checks and balances of the majority around it, then I feel regulation is needed. There are too many past and current examples of an irresponsible minority doing great damage to an innocent majority.
And no, I have no desire to see ma Bell resurrected. But I WOULD like to see the splinters behaving a bit more responsibly...  |
