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Rat  ·  4378 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Experiment: What's YOUR most controversial opinion, Hubski?

Top Comment of this thread on reddit:

"DAE think Richard Dawkins is a visionary, weed should be legalized, fox news can't be trusted, and women never go for nice guys?!?"

So brave...

I really don't hold too many absolutely off the wall opinions. I suppose my opinions related to the most controversial matters are that I am pro-choice and anti-gun control. Actually TBH I know what people don't like when I say it.

I think that a pure capitalist market is both ineffective in the long-run and unrealistic given the current trends and realities of globalization. While free-market strategies can be valuable in seeking innovation and the blossoming of both new technologies and new firms specializing in those technologies, reality teaches us that capitalism has led to oligopoly situations in essentially every imaginable market.

These oligopolies are good at producing dollar flow but are not optimal for the everyman. They do not provide the maximum amount of bang-for-buck to consumers because they do not have to compete with anyone is any real fashion. They just buy up new technologies and conduct competition through patent wars. And they are providing a far less than optimal job environment due to the ease in which they can outsource jobs and selectively hire/fire workers domestically. It is depressing to both total hirees and average wages around the globe. There are more optimal ways to run our economies than unchecked markets. Especially with regards to dealing with large amounts of "guaranteed" (not really) money as is the case with modern banking.