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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1253224, member: 3011&quot;]It&#039;s never easy.&nbsp; The theory is fairly [not completely] sound.&nbsp; But if you let the free market determine eveything the problems will be just as great.&nbsp; Without regulation, large companies will use predatory pricing to bankrupt weaker and smaller competitors.&nbsp; Companies will collude to fix wages and benefits at subsistance levels.&nbsp; Product safety will take a back seat to profits.&nbsp; Workplace safety will be ignored and injuries and deaths on the job will return to levels of 100+ years ago.&nbsp; Environmental law will be ignored as it is in other nations.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Never underestimate the power of greed.&nbsp; Almost no CEOs care anything about employees, the local economy, or anything but themselves.&nbsp; Most are probably psychopathic and will only do what is forced upon them by the legal system and economic policy.&nbsp; Look at the job situation.&nbsp; The free trade agreements over the past couple of decades have led to the transfer of much of the investment capital and jobs to other nations.&nbsp; If tarriffs and other regulations were in place, this would never have occurred.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The details are unimportant, but the point is -- the people in the private sector are no better than those who run oppressive governments around the world, or the leaders of various theocratic countries around the world.&nbsp; Free trade is probably okay for primitive tribes, but modern economies need controls over government, churches and large businesses.&nbsp; Oherwise, people will end up serving the institutions instead of the institutions serving the people.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think about it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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