29 Dec 2021 7:55 pm
We can agree there are abuses. But this isn't due to some fault with capitalism. It is due to human nature and the desire to obtain an unfair advantage. This is precisely WHY it is regulated by the government under the auspices of the power to regulate trade defined in the Constitution. I will give you an example in which we do agree.Cannonpointer » 29 Dec 2021, 8:24 pm » wrote: ↑ Of COURSE ya do.
You're a wall street fancier.
Not just ANYBODY gets to run a trading board. No, no - that's all licensed by the nanny state regulated, protected.
And when necessary, rescued.
I'm going to just get crazy as a mother ****, here, and suggest to you that over the past 40 years or so, a whole bunch of moves have been made that are NOT in the interests of us citizens, but which HAVE BEEN in the interests of the global elites who benefit from wall street's cozy relationship with government.
Listen, if that whole "cozy relationship" thing is confusing, google "bailouts," and learn how capitalism REALLY works. Then, you might understand why I prefer free enterprise.
Years ago I was anxiously awaiting the arrival of Windows 4.0. I already had a PC running an earlier version of Windows and was very dissatisfied. Another product had previously come out on the market called DR DOS. An operating system produced by Digital Research (hence the name). DR DOS could do many things Windows had touted it would do without all the bugs. It truly was the first multitasking operating system. If you tried to open email in Windows and simultaneously open a spreadsheet or Word it would crash and burn constantly. DR DOS could run Windows underneath it seamlessly. It could even run multiple instances of Windows and it actually prevented many of the crashes Windows would experience. It also provided its own suite of applications which in many cases were better or unavailable for Windows.
When I received my copy of the newly released Windows 4.0 (it came in 14 3.5 inch disks) I began the install. It took about 45 minutes to load each disk. That's about 10 hours total if you were Johnny-on-the-spot swapping out the next disk (such was the technology of the day). After 10 hours I watched the progress bar approach 100%. At 99% it took forever to go the last percentile. After 2 hours it finally displayed a message... "DR DOS Installation Error! Please contact your vendor for assistance!". What the hell did that mean? I called Microsoft and got a message saying their help line was down due to technical difficulties. So I called DR DOS and got a message the wait time was over 10 hours. So I hung up and decided to try another attempt at installing Windows 4.0 (it had hung in a manner that I wasn't able to boot the system at all... even to DR DOS). 10 hours later same thing at 99% and two more hours to receive the message.