Amazon’s Sunday Delivery Hurts Capitalism
PICKING WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE MARKETPLACE … AGAIN By Mande Wilkes || Naturally, a majoYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
PICKING WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE MARKETPLACE … AGAIN By Mande Wilkes || Naturally, a majoYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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I wouldn’t say it’s hurting capitalism, as it’s just more corporatism.
Mandy knows
Like it or not, Fascism makes the trains run on time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces#Fasces_in_the_United_States
Really? Maybe the Fascist controlled media reported that the trains ran on time.
http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp
Fox news is the most popular news network.
“(remember that FedEx and the like are barred from shipping certain packages – hence the monopoly).
Looks like shippers have shipped plenty of other packages.
Why FedEx and UPS Want the Postal Service to Survive
http://www.minyanville.com/business-news/editors-pick/articles/postal-service-usps-post-office-post/8/3/2012/id/42951
Top U.S. Postal Service Suppliers for Fiscal Year 2013
http://www.huschblackwell.com/~/media/Files/Industries_Services/Services/Government%20Contracts/Postal%20Service%20Contracting/Top%20USPS%20Suppliers/USPSsuppliersFY2013.pdf
A government office can’t contract with a private company? Uhhhh what? So the Government has to build its own cars for the police force? Its own fire trucks? It has to hire hundreds of construction employees to build government buildings? It has to hire guys to build roads directly? It has to build its own computers, printers, cell phones? Make its own electricity? Manufacture its own carpet? Manufacture its own toilets? Buy its own tree farms to make paper and toilet paper?
This is nonsensical. FitsNews is slipping publishing this POS article.
Whenever government acts there is moral hazard. Everything it has or buys has been gained through taking money/property from someone else…so in that sense you are correct…the article is nonsensical.
Every g’ment job displaces three jobs in the private sector. … Univ. of Madrid, Spain, economics department study of last year. Every “green” g’ment job in Europe displaces six private sector jobs, according to that study.
Mande, you can learn a business lesson on what drives traffic at fitsnews. Your article is sandwiched between and article about an all white county club with 27 comments and a shooting by a white cop of a black victim/perpetrator with 94 comments. Your article had only 7 comments.
These articles bring out the bigots, and those who see bigotry in every incident that occurs between races and seek to exploit it.
If the shooting only involved whites, a discussion on the use of deadly force would be useful, but not the posters here. They want racial discord.
You wrote previously about not writing for blogs before because of the negative responses. I understand. The exposure to this negativity effects me also.
this is exactly what I expect a Charleston SOL grad to know about capitalism
Libertarians hate all taxes, even fee-for-use taxes. Ever hear a libertarian praise the gas tax (state or federal) that funds road repairs?
Also, I thought the right always complained that government should act more like a business in order to keep its fiscal house in order. Here USPS is trying to do just that, but that’s wrong, because government shouldn’t be in the business of doing business, even if they are empowered by the Constitution itself to do so.
Who wants to bet that UPS and FedEx were also approached by Amazon, but wanted to gouge them for providing the same delivery service?
Still, though … it rings so wrong, to me, that a corporation would have sway over the federal government … to the exclusion and detriment of other, less gigantic companies.
Citizens United, McCutcheon, ALEC, the Kochs, and Karl Rove disturb the fuck out of me a lot more than USPS delivering packages for Amazon when it comes to corporate influence over federal government.
My opinion is you should just show your tits and get it over with.
Mande is beautiful but lets put function/competence over form/looks: 1) empirical means observational, so “empirical sense” is odd wording; 2) especially when the observed datum in support of Mande’s model (she could be one) is the financial success of the USPS – which is now losing gobs of money and only worked/profited when they had, in essence, a monopoly; and (speaking of gov’t monopolies) 3) the US Patent and Trademark Office is the only (I think) part of the federal behemoth that actually makes money now and has done so for decades.