I keep hearing that a Free Market gives people ample opportunity to get ahead. However, the more I look into this, the more I realize that fewer and fewer corporations control the vast majority of companies we think are independent.
Kraft, for instance, owns the following (this is a long paragraph, I advise you skim over it)-
* A1 Steak Sauce* Africana Romania* Air Crisps* Ali Coffee* Alpen Gold (chocolate) (Poland, Russia)* Arrowroot biscuits* Back to Nature* Bagel-Fuls* Baker's (chocolate)* Balance Bar* Better Cheddars* Boca Burger* Bonox* Breakstone's* BullsEye Barbecue Sauce* Cadbury plc* Caf茅 HAG* California Pizza Kitchen (grocery store items)*Calumet Baking Powder* Cameo (biscuits)* Capri Sun (juice drink)* Carte Noire* Cheesybite* Charada (Peru)* Cheese Nips* Cheez Whiz* Cheezels (Malaysia)* Chicken in a Biskit* Chips Ahoy! (cookies)* Chipsmore (Malaysia, Singapore)* Christie (Canadian division of Nabisco)* Claussen (pickles)* Clight* Club Social (crackers)* Cool Whip (non-dairy whipped cream)* CornNuts (snack food)* Coronita (Peru)* C么te d'Or* Country Time (powdered drink mix)* Cracker Barrel* Crystal Light* Daim (Sweden)*Dairylea (Europe)* Delissio (Canada)* DiGiorno (pizza)* Easy Cheese* Eden processed cheese (Philippines)* El Caser铆o (Spain)* Estrella (Sweden)* Field (Peru)* Fig Newton* Filipinos (snack food) (Spain, Portugal)* Freia (Norway)* Fudgee-O (Canada)* General Foods International* Gevalia (Sweden)* Grape-Nuts (breakfast cereal)* Grey Poupon (mustard)* Handi-Snacks* Harvest Crisps* Honey Maid* In-A-Biskit (Australia)* Jack's Pizza* Jacobs (Europe)* Jacob's (biscuits)* Japp (Scandinavia)* Jell-O (gelatin dessert)* Jet-Puffed Marshmallows* Kenco (United Kingdom)* Knox (gelatin)* Kong Haakon (Norway)* Kool-Aid (flavored drink mix)* Korona (Ukraine)* Kraft BBQ Sauce* Kraft Caramels* Kraft Macaroni and Cheese* Kraft Dinner (Canada)* Kraft Easymac* Kraft Mayo* Kraft Bagelfuls* Kraft Peanut Butter (Canada)* Kraft Singles (pasteurized prepared cheese product)* Kraft Sandwich Spread* Kraker Bran* Lacta (Brazil)* Lef猫vre-Utile* Lunchables* Lyuks (potato chips) (Ukraine)* Maarud (potato chips) (Norway)* Marabou (Sweden)* Maxwell House (coffee)* Milka (Europe)* Miracle Whip (salad dressing spread)* Miracoli (Germany)* Mostro (Peru)* Mikado (United Kingdom)* Nabisco* Nabob (coffee) (Canada)* Naked Drinks* Nilla* Non-Stop (Scandinavia)* Nutter Butter* O'boy (Scandinavia, Estonia)* Onko (coffee)* Oreo (cookie)* Orchard Crisps* ORO Saiwa* Oscar Mayer* Grated Parmesan cheese* Philadelphia cream cheese* Pigrolac* Planters* Poiana (Romania)* Polly-O (cheese)* Premium (a Nabisco brand of saltine crackers)* Pretzels* P'tit Qu茅bec* Prince Polo* Pure Kraft Salad Dressings* Ritz* Ritz Metro* Royal baking powder* Saiwa (Italian Division of Nabisco)* Seven Seas (salad dressings)* Saimaza (Spain)* Sanka (decaffeinated coffee)* Shake 'n Bake* Simmenthal (canned meat)* Snackabouts* SnackWells* South Beach Living* Starbucks (grocery store items)* Stove Top stuffing* Suchard* Svoge (Bulgaria)* Swiss Crackers* Sugar Wafers* Taco Bell (grocery store items)* Tang* Tassimo (single-serve coffee machines using pods branded as T-Discs)* Teddy Grahams* Terrabusi (Kraft Foods Argentina)* Terry's (chocolates)* Terry's Chocolate Orange* Tiger Energy Biscuits (Southeast Asian countries)* Toasted Chips* Toblerone (Kraft Foods Switzerland)* Tombstone (frozen pizza)* Triscuit (snack cracker)* Thinsations* Trakinas* Twist* Twisties (Malaysia)
How much power can one get? How far does the grasp of the Corporation reach compared to the Government?
Remember, you don't vote for CEO's.
How free is the free market, anyway-for the aspiring business owner? What are his chances against giants like Kraft?
Does he have lobbyists? Can he exist easily in our era of Corporate Feudalism?|||What are you doing?? You are supposed to be focused on the black president and the n---ger loving pelosi and reid, not logical conversation stuff like this!! Someone needs to reconnect you to the matrix!!!|||You're worried about the power of Kraft? Son, there are mcuh bigger things to focus on.
When you are a shareholder you do vote for the CEO.|||Everything you say is correct.
The only exception to this rule was Walmart, which became a behemoth like this anyways.|||The top corporations/billionaires own everything...but they hide it in a series of fake corporations.
We only know part of the truth|||You are on to something. Now try to get used to the fact that most people can't understand where you are coming from...|||They expanded their empire by buying the competition. The competition didn't have to sell.|||They have FDA regulations and other government regulations that take out their competition for them. Thus we dont have a free market and havent in a very very very long time.|||Simple, boycott Kraft products.|||Love Kraft, (dinners and Raspberry jam)|||No,,,,I like Paul Newmans salad dressings best.|||the free market says you have the freedom to boycott kraft food.|||Capitalism, despite popular belief, isn't a perfect system, as many would like to believe. The flaw you pointed in is the largest chink in the armor.
Capitalism relies on a free market with equal opportunities. But those two things can't coexist, in fact, they contradict each other.
The main philosophy is, if you lose, it's your own fault. But there are so many other factors when it comes to winning that the capitalist philosophy doesn't take into account. Consider that it's a dog eat dog economy. What if one dog is 3 times as big as another dog faces a normal sized dog. Who's gonna win? When big dog eats the normal sized dog, he grows to the size of 4 dogs. Monopolies, however we much we try to stop them, are part of the Capitalist system, and the philosophy is that if they made it, it was through hard work and perseverance.
But, as you can see, people don't work hard and persevere to become successful. The majority of them are born into successful families and/or cheat to get ahead.
A free market economy relies on competition, and competition is ruthless, my friend.
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