Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | reply to 56403739
Re: That's an excellent idea (John Kerry Bill) said by 56403739:Unfortunately, the whiny couch potatoes here want the government to do what a free market is perfectly capable of. Content providers are granted a monopoly by government called copyright. Broadcast stations are granted a license by government. Cable TV can't operate without a franchise from local government to use public right of ways and is forced to carry broadcast stations that elect must-carry and has to pay to carry those that don't, etc. While you may have a point about whiny couch potatoes, where exactly is this free market? |
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 56403739Less than 5 months leftPremium
join:2006-03-08
Naples, FL
kudos:2 | said by Sammer:Cable TV [...]is forced to carry broadcast stations that elect must-carry and has to pay to carry those that don't, etc. Must-carry elected stations do not receive a fee from the cable company, while those who wish to be compensated are not required to be carried. The programming producers set what they think is a market price and the cable system decides whether they want to pay that much for it. It's called arriving at a valuation for a product, and is very much a free market. You are confusing the product with the package. |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | reply to Sammer
The Free market in many ways is nothing more then an ideal--- and a myth in reality. It's an abstract concept which actually fails utterly when attempted, much like Communism.
There is no such thing as a Free market. There are sliding scales. Every economy on earth could more appropriately be described as a socialist economy, unless you're dealing with an pure anarchy situation (and these never last for long either) because it's quickly replaced by a socialist economy but it's usually ruled by who has the most weaponry and is the most violent, until some type of Government is re-created.
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
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56403739Less than 5 months leftPremium
join:2006-03-08
Naples, FL
kudos:2 | said by KrK:There is no such thing as a Free market. There are sliding scales. Every economy on earth could more appropriately be described as a socialist economy, unless you're dealing with an pure anarchy situation (and these never last for long either) because it's quickly replaced by a socialist economy but it's usually ruled by who has the most weaponry and is the most violent, until some type of Government is re-created. So, you advocate going directly to the centrally-controlled socialist model. OK then. |
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | said by 56403739:So, you advocate going directly to the centrally-controlled socialist model. OK then. Really. Huh, I didn't see any such advocacy..... I guess however you advocate the straight to the gutter hyberbole attack when can't counter with something of substance model?
Apparently so.
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
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56403739Less than 5 months leftPremium
join:2006-03-08
Naples, FL
kudos:2 | said by KrK:said by 56403739:So, you advocate going directly to the centrally-controlled socialist model. OK then. Really. Huh, I didn't see any such advocacy..... I guess however you advocate the straight to the gutter hyberbole attack when can't counter with something of substance model? Apparently so. "Every economy on earth could more appropriately be described as a socialist economy,"
You should read your own posts. |
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | said by 56403739:"Every economy on earth could more appropriately be described as a socialist economy," You should read your own posts. Having a problem with fact? Can't handle truth? What's the problem, exactly? You have grip on a certain unique reality principle?
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
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