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Of course I have run my own bussinesses. I have several of them now, all of them exist because they are able to deliver goods and services that customers want, either with qualities better than competition or prices lower than competition, or a combination of both. Should any of them fail to deliver what the consumers want, I don't see any reason why that business should continue to exist. I have also closed several businesses over the years simply because the product/service became commoditized and it made no sense for me to waste my time on being part of that industry any longer; time to move onto greener pasture.
The government bailouts of badly run companies is driving up commodity prices across board and making it harder for mine, and for many other healthy businesses, to turn a profit because the input factors have been bid up in price by those zombie businesses. . . any wonder why unemployment rate is so high? The zombies obviously can't hire as they are doomed anyway after marking time, and the healthy businesses are not hiring as many as they would because they are having their life blood sucked out by the government transfer of wealth to the zombies.
Don't even get me started on healthcare cost. All my employees would rather be paid more in cash than having me buy healthcare insurance for them. The whole thing is a scam to transfer wealth from the working class to the super-rich who get paid huge bonuses on those reckless betting using insurance companies as patsies.
There is a fundamental misunderstanding about what economy is in the government-run youth concentration camps called compulsory education: economy is not about everyone going through the same motions every day, doing exactly the same as they did the day before, or even what their grandparents did half a century before (e.g. silly questions like "if my father was a well paid unionized autoworker, so was my grandfather, why can't I?" Who'd be making computers in that case? or any car better than those made in the 1950's?). Economy is about finding less expensive answers to human desires than existing answers; it starts with the procurement of food: you buy food from grocery stores because it takes less effort/money from you to buy the food than to grow the same in your yard! That also explains why most people would buy at supermarkets at lower price than grocery stores when possible. Then warehouse clubs after that. The mainstream public-dumbing down approach can't even explain how food gets to their dinner plate every day.
"Need" vs. "want" are entirely subjective. You may consider 4-cyl as "need" but most of the world would consider that beyond luxury. Having the guns of government (short-hand: gun-run-ment) decide what's "need" vs. "want" is guaranteed to project someone personal prejudice onto arbitrary laws enforced through violence. e.g. "healthcare" sounds like reasonable "need," right? Yet, people do die, an inevitable result of being alive. Policy combinations that depriving dying elderlies of simple inexpensive enjoyment such as pot and pump them full of ridiculously expensive drugs looting the next generation is guaranteed to have support in an intrusive government: the big pharma, the prison industry, the banks to finance both and the bureaucrats to launder the loot. The result is not satisfying need or want, but travesty, waste, corruption and injustice.
There is no single way to satisfy 310 million people. Life is about trade-off's. Different people have different desires ("need" and "want") and different priorities. It has to be up to the individuals to decide what is more important to himself or herself. The best the gun-run monopoly can do is respecting such personal choices, and striving to keep itself and worse versions of itself from trampling upon such individual liberties.
posted by 76.118.39...
, Thu, 5 May 2011 19:17:20
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