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They can form monopolies and price fix, or use their size/political influence to shut down competitors. When they are the only game in town, I can't shop elsewhere. That's not honest.
Those words could also describe the business world to a T. Thuggary? The Mine Wars in West Virginia.
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I never said the Unions were the only thugs, but at least you are categorizing them with other criminalistc ventures.
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If you look at the history of guilds you would realize that they are little different from unions: if a person did not belong to a guild, he could not get work.
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Which is one of the many reasons I reject collective bargaining. A guild, at least as I envision it, is simply a company supplying labor for the best contract it can negotiate. It's bargaining power is in the quality of its product, not its use of brute force.
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Sounds kind of like fascism doesn't it?
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In no way, manner, shape, color, style or form. It is glorious Capitalism.
In Fascism, the State would set the wages, the production, the work conditions, the worker allocation, prices and resource allocation.
In Capitalism, these are all determined by the free market.
03-03-2011, 03:01 PM
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