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TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax

enraged_camel posted:

But then lazy government employees will make the system inefficient!!!!

let's see how you poors like your public healthcare when you have to line up around the block to get the service you currently just can't get

or when government bureaucrats with zero vested interest in your health decide whether you live and die, as opposed to corporate executives who decide it based on which is cheaper for them

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TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax

Blue Train posted:

Privatize all industry, monetize every aspect of life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWJo2EZW8yU

TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax

tetsuo posted:

lol why can't there be a breed of liberals happy to own guns and who thirst for blood to cleanse this world

because the CIA diligently looks out for them wherever they appear and arranges for them to be seized by their local government and summarily executed

TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax
which is one of the few things they do right :911:

TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax

Melmac posted:

Industries where capitalism is good:

Car companies
Cell phone manufacturers
Grocery stores
Beer

lol that you think this

TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax

XMNN posted:

tbf we do have the lead on the soviet union in terms of consumer electronics

I'm just going to point out that the volkswagen is the result of corporatism

just saying

TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax
I mean that's literally the reason it's called that

the people's car

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TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax

Drone_Fragger posted:

Any industry where choice is a meaningless concept is inherently a terrible one for capitalism to work in. This is why medicine doesn't work in it because for any diseases theres only a couple of drugs that will help with it so that company has a monopoly on that treatment by default and hence they can charge whatever the gently caress they want because you have no choice of where else to go for said drug.

This is why drug prices drop from like 2000 dollars per pill to 0.3 cents when the patent expires and a company starts making them at just over cost price rather than with the 30,000% markup.

more to the point if you're having a heart attack you don't really have the luxury of calling around to decide which ambulance firm to get to take you to which hospital and in all likelihood you'll only have one real choice anyway

also that guy who woke up when paramedics were alerted to him unconscious on the side of the road after a motorcycle accident and was literally forced into an ambulance against his protestations and subsequently filed for bankruptcy after leaving the hospital with a bill for more than his salary which I believe is now in litigation lmfbo

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