10 Corporations Control Nearly Everything You Buy ...

[oyarde]

YOu know, that's a really good point. My husband is a cereal eater, but I never bought it because I thought (and still think actually) that the prices were ridiculously high.

I cannot believe what they get for a box of that , but , hey , gotta pay for the tv commercials I reckon

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Call me silly if ya like, but I gave up cereal many years ago. Eggs are nature's perfect breakfast food. I prefer omlettes, myself. Keep your overpriced junk food called "cereal".

 

[DamianTV]

Call me silly if ya like, but I gave up cereal many years ago. Eggs are nature's perfect breakfast food. I prefer omlettes, myself. Keep your overpriced junk food called "cereal".

Its not junk food! See! Read teh ingreedients! The first or second ingreedient is usually Sugar! And its fortified with other shit they tell you is healthy! Like Polysufuric Hydrogenated Corn Potato Mutant GM Hybrid Extract.

Their definition of Healthy and ours seem to be very very different.

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

Why?

Are you really asking that question?

 

[Constitutional Paulicy]

And yet despite all these "carcinogens" the American lifespan has increased fairly dramatically in the past 50 years, and cancer survival rates have improved immensely too.

Did you ever think that the life span might actually have increased even more and that surviving cancer isn't the ideal solution. Not getting it in the first place would be the preferred approach don't ya think?

Did I fail to mention heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, Alzheimer's, etc. Oh wait that falls under chronic disease. Beating these diseases isn't called living. It's called surviving. Living a healthy existence is what we should be striving for.

 

[familydog]

This, except rather than hating on corporations let's identify the real culprit: government.

You're right. Corporations, as a legal status, are state creations.

 

[familydog]

And yet Monster likely couldn't exist if it wasn't able to tap into the existing distribution networks of the very people it fights for shelf space. The mind boggles...

How do you know this? Small producers did very well in 19th century America.

 

[donnay]

Trader Joe's private labels (which are a major portion of their business) are made by major manufacturers for them. Sometimes you can guess from the packaging which ones but they don't reveal who (they did say once that Stacy's (owned by Pepsi) makes their pita chips and Stoneyfield (Dannon) makes their yogurts. http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/20/news/companies/inside_trader_joes_full_version.fortune/ Private label goods in the big grocery chains are usually made by a company which produces private label goods for many stores so it does vary.

You're making our case Zippy. Thanks!

 

[donnay]

Its not junk food! See! Read teh ingreedients! The first or second ingreedient is usually Sugar! And its fortified with other shit they tell you is healthy! Like Polysufuric Hydrogenated Corn Potato Mutant GM Hybrid Extract.

Their definition of Healthy and ours seem to be very very different.

Yes indeed. A box of cereal is fortified with Iron--uh huh.

 

[presence]

Realogy / Travelport / Wyndham Worldwide / Affinion / Avis Budget Group


= 90% of all car rental, real estate, and hotels.

 

[helmuth_hubener]

I was going to post this but decided it was probably a waste of time with this group.

I was going to post that but figured it would be lost on the crowd around here.

Does anyone else find this fascinating?

What does it mean that both Natural Citizen and angelatc have given up on us?

 

[green73]

Does anyone else find this fascinating?

What does it mean that both Natural Citizen and angelatc have given up on us?

It has me wringing my hands!

 

[tod evans]

Well said--that's the way to beat the system, stay healthy! The only problem is the big corporations (Big Agra/Big pHARMa/) are seeing to it that the small farmer and ranchers become obsolete.

Small farms thrive in the Ozarks.

In just the last 5 years the local farmers market has quadrupled in size, private "meat packing" plants are springing up in the small towns where they'd closed years back and roadside stands replete with seafood from the gulf and crawdads from the delta line the paved roads..

 

[compromise]

Congratulations to them.

If I ran a corporation, I'd be lobbying the government too. If I don't, my competitor will keep on doing so. The only way I can keep up with them is by also lobbying myself. It would be my duty to do what is best for the survival of my corporation.

Ultimately, the politicians make the decision to accept the corporate lobbyist money and it's the politicians that must be removed and replaced.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Originally Posted by Natural CitizenI was going to post this but decided it was probably a waste of time with this group.

Originally Posted by angelatc
I was going to post that but figured it would be lost on the crowd around here.

Does anyone else find this fascinating?

What does it mean that both Natural Citizen and angelatc have given up on us?

Well. To be fair, I've only recently discovered the downside of being one of these intj schmucks.

So, I have to work on actually wanting to take time to explain things that I erroneously expect others to already know.

Is a work in progress. Very difficult reality to accept actually.

In the mean time I kind of have to accept the fact that many probably think that I see myself as some sort of elitist. Which is antother downside of that intj phenomenon. Or so they say. I'm not really like that. Is just that this shit really pisses me off when people can't tell the difference between a free market and an actual fascist system in place and fully functional regarding this issue in particular.

 

[helmuth_hubener]

people can't tell the difference between a free market and an actual fascist system in place and fully functional regarding this issue in particular.

How do you know there's a big difference? That is, how do you know that in a truly free market there wouldn't be even bigger companies? Maybe there would be three massive conglomerates that made 80% of food and household goods.

I can see both sides. I personally am very skeptical that there would stop being large companies in a free market. But I understand that you are skeptical that large companies could continue to exist in a free market. Either way, the free market will provide more abundance, more happiness, and more opportunities to us all. And if big companies do continue to thrive, it need not chagrin you -- you can simply not deal with them.

Of course, you can do that now, too....

 

[angelatc]

[h=1]10 Corporations Control Nearly Everything You Buy ...[/h]

So what is the opposite of that, really? "A Bunch of Other Corporations Control Nearly Everything You Don't Buy?"

 

[angelatc]

Well. To be fair, I've only recently discovered the downside of being one of these intj schmucks.

So, I have to work on actually wanting to take time to explain things that I erroneously expect others to already know.

Is a work in progress. Very difficult reality to accept actually.

In the mean time I kind of have to accept the fact that many probably think that I see myself as some sort of elitist. Which is antother downside of that intj phenomenon. Or so they say. I'm not really like that. Is just that this shit really pisses me off when people can't tell the difference between a free market and an actual fascist system in place and fully functional regarding this issue in particular.

The real reality that is difficult to accept is that INTJ types can't see anything except what they've decided is true.

 

[angelatc]

Does anyone else find this fascinating?

What does it mean that both Natural Citizen and angelatc have given up on us?

Heavens no. It means that I was mocking Natural Citizen, but it seems to have gone right over his head. Evidenced when he told me I could have phrased that better.

 

[Natural Citizen]

The real reality that is difficult to accept is that INTJ types can't see anything except what they've decided is true.

Uh-huh. Is a hoot alright. I probably agree with that assessment too but is not to say that it cannot be overcome.