General Discussions

Yes, the financial world is a huge monopoly where the harshest win, the ISPs are only a small part of the package deal, everyone devour their neighbor for dough, the phony part is: we all suffer from a minimal amount of vultures. But then, most are conveyed to follow the riches - while we all know the futility of the matter - going fast forward nowhere, picking to extinction just to keep the markets flowing, to subjugate the fraud while the servile flourish the businesses, being exploited by our elected benefactors speaking tongues repeatedly with charisma and often armed to the teeth...But no one want to hear it, until those that pollute this earth realize that life on orbital stations isn't that much attractive....as fiscal paradises do not protect from famine..|

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So who, and or where, is the answer to the dilemma you have described? If millions of people are affected by inexorable and unyielding forces, should we turn to a single bureaucrat, or a group of bureaucrats and let them decide our fate? We must not allow ourselves to forget that bureaucrats must earn a living, and that they earn their living from the productive members of society - in truth they produce nothing.

It has been evident to me, that bureaucratic (statist) intervention in private matters; always leads to a "one size fits all" solution. This solution ironically, almost always fits very few. In addition, their solutions also create what I term; "insoluble conflicts" or unintended consequences. With these things in mind, we must accept the fact that the bureaucrat is like every other person, and has his own selfish self interests at heart - they want to preserve and protect their own livelihood.

Because these things are what they are, I much rather prefer "market forces" as a reliable guide. Rather than the "tail wagging the dog"; which is what happens when the few tell the many what they should or should not do; I rely on what the many have said, done, and are doing - this is an essential element of what I call, the wisdom of the free market.

The major difference with Zenni Optical is the method of sale. Oakley had to rely on Luxottica's point of sale shops as the internet did not support e-commerce at that time. The way Luxottica choked them out was to refuse to carry their brand which caused their sales to plummet to a level where Luxottica could buy them out.

Zenni Optical sells their stuff purely online which Luxottica cannot do anything to counter it. This strategy works and allows Zenni to stay alive. Luxottica still relies on physical point of sales such as malls and dominates there.

I suppose you can assume all companies are inherently evil but Zenni won't be going full evil anytime in the near future.

[Edited by Neo7, 12/16/2017 7:04:36 AM]

Remember those bailout takers? The ones that took the bailout and gave themselves bonus raises? Let's just say, "Oh they're good guys, we can trust them to regulate themselves." That's basically what my rep in congress told me about the ISPs.

Why stop at ISPs? Let Airlines regulate themselves. Pharmaceuticals. We should take all of our regulatory agencies out and gut them.

If there were no laws constraining the actions of any of your neighbors, would you sleep soundly? Would you just "trust" them to be civil? Or would you wake up one morning to your door wide open, electronics knicked, and dog shat all over the yard? Same thing really. Oh and then cops come and tell ya, "That's a free market for you bub. Nothing we can do."

Like most people, I'm done ever believing that anything organization with a "CEO" is anything other than a boil of greed and stupidity. I don't see how anyone that's lived in the past two decades has any sympathy left whatsoever for brand name company's bottom line. (PWiz, if you're technically a CEO of CH, I retract my above comment and pray the sun always shines on your CEO toilet seat to keep your booty warm).

Now there's nothing to regulate, threaten, or otherwise keep ISPs from being pricks. Well, any MORE of a prick.

[Edited by bruticus0, 12/22/2017 6:08:54 PM]

Neo7 (both your posts), you are one of the few people who have managed to elaborate on the essence of what the whole thing is all about, that a layman could simply catch right of the bat. A real kudos to that! 😀

Most explanations are either over-technical or they expect someone not in the know to have pior knowledge, or to just "get it" somehow. Now your grandma can figure this out too!

[Edited by Katya12, 12/22/2017 6:17:48 PM]

Well we can't, or at least shouldn't , go full deregulation as people are people and will always find ways to screw people over given half a chance if their is little to no repercussions. But neither can we have all the regulations as that will lead to stagnation and companies half-assing it if they know going full-ass won't make more money. A happy medium is what we all would want I think, but what that looks like I have no idea.