Nah, Goof's officially the conservative version of a mindless college liberal.

Okay. It's really a simple concept. No government intervention, let the people decide where they want to work. Not a massive deal.

Well child labor laws might get abolished and those little parasites will get to earn their keep for greedy ass corporations.

Child labor, a truly free market practice.

When massive corporations who have no anti-trust laws to stop them throttle the market so that there are only a few businesses to work for then the people won't really have any decision who to work for. Like, do you even know how capitalism works or did you just watch a few ****ty Youtube videos?

You really are a moron.

Goofle's school really should have taught him about what capitalism is.

Yes, because my 56 year old wife who busted her ass for decades, and had reached the point of a great paying job with full benefits, had her career completely destroyed as a direct result of corporate greed.

So now she "chooses" to work part time for minimum wage and zero benefits because that's all she can find in today's economy.

I hereby abolish human rights and any kind of civilian protections because free market.

Jesus Christ, the Strawman is mandingo in you.

Protecting them literally infringes on how free the market is. So yes, zero government regulation means that there are zero civilian protections in the workplace.

Anti-trust laws infringe on the free market. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Either laissez-faire or a mixed economy.

I we aren't allowed to have human rights and a free market, I suppose I'll have to side with the free market. Even though obviously the two naturally coexist.

Dude if you genuinely believe that then you are never allowed to accuse or (or insinuate) someone of being deluded leftie because irony entirely shatters and rips the fabric of time after a certain point.

Okay, so what is your perfect world? What's the economy and government of your country like?

I'm living a perfect example of corporate greed. 6 billion dollar Megacorp. They tie the VP of purchasing's bonus directly into how much cost savings he can get from vendors even though the company hasn't reduced their sell prices nor have they given their employees wage increases. In fact, they've been laying off long term employees right before they're eligible for their well earned pensions at a record pace.

So they come to us every year and demand a 5% price reduction. Most years we can accommodate them but in 2014 we couldn't. The dude gets pissed and instructs his team to coerce our partner to cut us completely out. 6 billion dollar company gets their 5% discount, our partner is able to increase their profits, and my company loses 90% of our sales overnight.

33 employees lose their long standing jobs, including my wife. I had to let go a guy who I hired 17 years ago and who'd become a close friend. We lose our building, and our reputation (because the mega corp and our partner manufactured a bogus payment dispute to cover their subterfuge).

The worst part? Megacorp was just sold for 8 billion dollars and it was disclosed that they'd achieved record profits for the last 10 quarters.

TLDR: Modern day free market capitalism is being used and abused to epic proportions to benefit the top percentile while doing squat for everyone else - and in our case, it got us kicked into the gutter.

You go Goofle!

Well, it is and it isn't a free market today. There's the flip side of the coin where regulations surpass what a small business can afford doing, which paves the way for corporatism. We see a lot of that in many industries, like GMO regs making it easy for Monsanto to be a giant of the field. No idea if that fits into your specific case but it's an important point to bring up in this conversation.

There's a happy medium. Nothing is black and white.

I sold my grey meter last year so I could make my May mortgage payment.

I like the government

Half the story is still brutality and murder.

Give me a specific example with a respectable source.

If you do the hiring and firing why didn't you keep wife secure?

Sovereignty is highly overrated in this day and age. Just like capitalism, sovereignty can, and has been easily co-opted to benefit only those at the top, and in power, at the total expense of the minions. And don't you dare complain about it for fear of a payback worse than hell itself.

So you think mass starvation and killing fields is better than what we have in the US?

Cut the talk radio, the weak semantic cornering game is showing.

Wow. Your ignorance is showing. Those are legitimate issues.

And your predisposition to logical fallacies shows the level of thought you've directed at the subject. Gotcha journalism is a weak form of argument and logic.

So you're an idiot. Got it.

Are you serious? Take your pick.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourcei...s%20violations

Prior to being destroyed the company had a number of departments. I headed up Engineering and Product Development. Linda worked in Operations and Logistics. We also had Admin, Accounting, R&D, Quality and Control, and IT.

Those 35 employees were reduced to 3. The owner and CEO, his wife, and me.

I'm currently doing my job, my staff's jobs, Linda's job, and helping the CEO with the lawsuits. His wife has taken over admin and accounting.

See, not as easy as your silly question/reply tried to make it out to be. Welcome to the real world.

It's not even what you were saying, it's the way you tried to disprove elphenor's point without even addressing what they were saying. It's the kind of filth that permeates the media and in turn, conversations. Bring something to the table.

Plus, our post histories put me above you as far as intelligence goes, let's not kid ourselves.

Elephenor's point was that the people would turn around and say it's better than out country. The problem with that argument is that it's going to be similar to how it is in the US. You have people who would see that as paradise, and people who would see that as a tortured life. His argument was ridiculous to start with.

That's not even what they said. All the outrageous parts of the argument were inserted by you, and that's the cheap shot semantic bs I was talking about earlier.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/11/26/...ord-repression

Counting Castro's Victims - WSJ

All you need to do is to point to the million+ Cubans who escaped his iron fist rule who were out in the streets celebrating as soon as his death was announced. Many of whom left family members behind who were incarcerated under his draconian laws.

Castro went the way of most revolutionists. Start with a noble ideal, gain some traction, become powerful and influential (and immensely rich), and then do everything possible to keep the power at the expense of your ideals, your country, and its people. Damn the torpedoes.

A google search isn't a good link and it doesn't sound like you hired or fired anyone you were just the messenger. That's a little trick to make you feel important and empowered when you're neither. Welcome to the real world.

Hey, cunt.

The Human Rights Watch is just a vague biography and the Wall Street Journal needed a log in after the first couple paragraphs.

The level of oppression I'm seeing is a tiny fraction of America's War on Drugs. And that's just one thing.

Oh no, mommy's boy called me a ****

Do you have a tiny dick or something?

Did you read the part where I mentioned that I'm the only employee left? Three top level company VP officers were let go and I still have a job. The CEO and I talk on a daily basis about every issue related to trying to keep the company alive and trying to win the lawsuit. He doesn't make a move until we've conferred and come to a common ground.

Your complete lack of empathy in regard to what I've been trying to relate about my own personal life situation speaks volumes dude.

Tiny dick? Where?!

Let's all stay civil, okay?

Speaking of repressive dictators...

Cuba not being a developed nation is the main reason why they should have stayed away from communism. Communism ends up failing because the concept was meant for developed industrial nations.