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NeoConvict » 07 Apr 2014 7:41 pm » wrote: As a purveyor of finer alternatives to smoking I occasionally consider sending celebrities samples. To do this I must know who is currently using them. If I could land Rush or Bruno Mars as a customer.....business would reach epic heights. Rush claims to have stopped using his....perhaps I could get Obama to evolve his opinion on the things because its his FDA and others that are attempting to hand the industry over to the cancer merchants. Right now I am enjoying my business as a hobby, helping people directly, as a tribute to my father, grandfather and favorite uncle who died from smoking related lung cancers. And as a hobby dedicated to the way I found to stop my own 25 year death spiral. Mass market success would kill some of that.

This is only the most current and accessible example of what I've been saying on these boards since 2009. This is NOT an anomaly. This is NOT "crony" capitalism. It is the DESIGN of capitalism - it is, as Rand would put it if she were a truth teller, "capitalism qua capitalism."

Capitalism relies on the state to corner markets, rather than earn their business. Look at Microsoft. It's an inferior product. But it owns the lion's share of the market. The reason for this is not that it served the market better, but that they were better connected and better at bullying the competition rather than out-serving the competition. If you look at any industry, private enterprise always does a better job. But capitalism always wins, because they have the government gun behind them.

We need to emulate this nation's founders and rebel against capitalism and reinstate free enterprise. Wall Street should be hermetically sealed as a monument to a failed economic system - an economic system defined by parasitism over service.