01-02-2014, 10:23 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-02-2014, 10:55 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
Albert Doyle Wrote:If there really is a free market couldn't companies voluntarily form under Title II and draw customers over to them, effectively outcompeting and undoing the non-neutral companies?
The operative word here Albert, is "if".
My take is that the "free market" is like democracy, it's effectively a fiction. I would suggest that the market actually operates more like a cartel.
Sure, I can move from one ISP provider to another, but I will be treated like a dog by all of them, who dictate terms and conditions that I cannot vary, and which leave me legally groundless.
Ditto many other industries too btw.
The only 'free markets' I've seen in the USA in my lifetime have been small, local organic vegetable and whole food markets, etc. All of the 'utilities', corporations, and 'media' are cartels - and with connections and interconnections to the Borg [Secret Government / Oligarchy / Banksters], IMHO..
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14